Eid (2024) and Prisoner (2025): Screening and Discussion with Rame Ibrahim

This program features two short films, selected at international film festivals like the Arab Film Festival, by local Palestinian filmmaker Rame Ibrahim. He has been shortlisted at the Young Director Awards (YDA) at Cannes Lions 2025. His films offer intergenerational portrayals of Palestinian dispossession and diaspora. They explore the passage of time and intergenerational trauma reflecting on Palestinian life post-Nakba, whether as refugees in Syria or immigrants to Canada.

Following the screening will be a discussion moderated by Dr. André Elias Mazawi (UBC) and Q&A session with the cast and crew of Prisoner.

Location: Labatt Hall and Theatre, SFU Harbour Centre Room 1700

Doors open at 5:30 PM

Light refreshments will be provided

Rame Ibrahim is a Palestinian-Canadian filmmaker whose work delves into the reality of Palestinian politics of displacement, intergenerational trauma and agency. His films, including Eid, Ahmed, and Prisoner, have screened internationally, with Prisoner being shortlisted for the Young Director Awards and Arab Film Festival. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and is an alumnus of the DOXA and VIFF mentorship programs.

Dr. André Elias Mazawi serves as Head, Professor, and Sociologist of Education, in the Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (BC), Canada. He is Affiliate Professor with the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research at the University of Malta, and an Affiliate Researcher with the Équipe de Recherche en Dimensions Internationales de l’Éducation (ERDIE) at the University of Geneva. His academic interests are in the areas of the cultural politics of schooling and higher education, the intersections between colonialism and education, with particular attention to the effects of privatization and geopolitics on schooling and educational policies, school governance, and school-higher education restructuring in the Arab region.

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