Where Olive Trees Weep (+ Q&A)

Name: Where Olive Trees Weep (+ Q&A)
Start: 2024-12-08T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-08T15:50:00+00:00
Location: Arnolfini

Schedule

Sun Dec 08 2024 at 01:30 pm to 03:50 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Arnolfini | Bristol, EN

Bristol Palestine Film Festival presents:
WHERE OLIVE TREES WEEP
Plus Q&A with Ashira Darwish (via Zoom), hosted by Selma Dabbagh.
Sunday 8th December
13:30-15:50 (doors at 13:00)
Arnolfini
£10 / £8.50 (£5 concessions)
Where Olive Trees Weep is a heartbreakingly beautiful and poignant new film about the struggles and resilience of Ashira Darwish, Ahed Tamimi, and other Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice, featuring Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté offering trauma healing work for Palestinian women tortured in Israeli prisons.
103 mins
Dir. Zaya Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo (2024)
Palestine / USA
DONATIONS:
All donations raised from this year's festival will be shared between two initiatives dedicated to supporting Palestinian filmmaking and filmmakers: FilmLab Palestine, based in Ramallah, and the children’s animation workshop My Story Became a Film in Gaza.
FilmLab Palestine's mission is “to boost film production and viewership in Palestine by providing the ideal space for filmmakers to convene, evoke learning, exchange experiences, inspire one another, produce film art, while exposing viewers to a diverse repertoire of films.”
My Story became a Film's founder, Haneen Muhammad Koraz, said: "I deeply believe that every person has the right to express themselves freely, and that art making and learning cartoon films is one of the means of free expression, audio-visually, for all segments of society. I tried to change the reality, even if just a little, for the children and women in the tents and I have conducted workshops specifically for children. Children and women draw, color, discuss, play, learn using the photography program, photograph scenes, write stories that express their suffering and reality, draw cartoon characters, and record their voices on film. They have created many cartoon films."
Part of Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2024.
See the full festival programme here: https://bristolpff.org.uk