Screening: Palestine Cinema Days | Tewfik Saleh, 'The Dupes'

Palestine Cultural Days Dublin and Film Lab Palestine presents Tewfik Saleh's The Dupes (1972) as part of Palestine Cinema Days | Around the world 2025.

On November 2, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Film Lab Palestine are organising over 500 Palestinian film screenings around the world. This global effort is a show of solidarity with Palestine, an act of amplification for censored Palestinian voices, and a contribution to shifting the distorted narrative.

The Dupes is a powerful political drama based on the 1962 novella Men in the Sun by Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani. It follows the tragic journey of three Palestinian refugees—Abu Qais, Assad, and Marwan—each from a different generation, who are desperate to escape the harsh conditions of refugee camps in Lebanon and seek a better life in Kuwait.

Directed by Tewfik Saleh, a pioneering Egyptian filmmaker known for his realistic and political cinema. Born in Alexandria in 1926, he studied film in Paris. Saleh was known for his humanistic style and independent stance, often clashing with censorship authorities. He received several international awards and passed away in 2013, leaving behind a powerful legacy in Arab cinema.
Runtime: 107 minutes
Language: Arabic (with English subtitles)

Palestine Cultural Days Dublin is a Dublin-based collective, with a mission to foster cultural exchange,understanding, and collaboration between the MENA region and Ireland through arts and culture.

With its slogan “Emancipatory Film Culture in, from, and for Palestine”, Filmlab Palestine, a non-profit organization, strives, since its foundation in 2014, to promote, revive, and expand one of the most effective audiovisual tools for self-expression, storytelling, and the preservation of collective memory: Cinema.

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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is an artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery in Dublin City Centre. Artists are supported through the provision of high-quality affordable studio space, professional development opportunities and the connection to a community of artists, peers and international networks. The Gallery presents five exhibitions annually of newly commissioned work by Irish and international artists. This is supported by a programme of talks, tours, screenings and workshops. We produce the annual Dublin Art Book Fair as a platform for artist books, independent publishers and an expansive curated programme of talks and events.

Event location information: This event is located in our ground floor gallery. Lighting will be low to accommodate a projector. Seating will is mixed. There is a small step from the street into the gallery. For further accessibility information please contact Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin at +353 (0)1 671 0073 or [email protected].

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