Provoked Narratives - Screening Films on Palestine

Queen Mary's Centre for Film and Ethics (CfFE) and the Global South Cinematheque, in partnership with the Palestine Film Institute, present Provoked Narratives, a set of films made between 1967-1984 on the Palestinian people's struggle for their homeland. The four films that will be screened, made by different filmmakers across geographies and time, create an archive of belonging of a people without “home”. The films reflect varying cinematic forms that the filmmakers have used to further Palestinian resistance. They present an unflinching look at the continued struggle for a Palestinian homeland, the brutality of the Israeli regime and what it leaves in its wake in the everyday lives of people, especially children. And yet, the films also evoke a sense of beauty and tenderness enmeshed in the everyday lives of people, and the non-heroic small acts that bind people to each other. It is in this paying careful and deep attention to the everyday practices in people’s lives, that the filmmakers provide a lodestar that paves the way for all of us to think, watch, write about Palestine, along with the documentary form and its affective encounters.