Projection - Eye On Palestine Fest : Occupied Palestine

Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival | Projection Occupied Palestine avec Crescent Dragonwagon

Long before the first intifada drew international media to focus on Palestinian life under Israeli rule, David Koff directed this in-depth portrait of the daily conflict being waged in Palestine/Israel. With a combination of candid interviews and remarkable historic footage, Occupied Palestine unpicks the strategic and ideological motors of colonisation in Palestine, showing in turn how Palestinian popular resistance is both widespread and on the rise. Met with bomb threats and censorship on its initial release in the U.S., Occupied Palestine remains a singular work of engaged filmmaking and a unique record of an overlooked chapter in the course of the conflict. PFF

Occupied Palestine looks unflinchingly at the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a struggle over land and resources between two national movements, one of colonization and one of resistance. The film acknowledges the military, strategic and tactical victories of Zionism in Palestine that underlie the establishment and territorial expansion of the state of Israel. Yet as Jabotinsky himself observed, "Zionist colonization . . . must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native population." Occupied Palestine shows in stark detail an implacable resistance to Zionist colonization and occupation on the part of the Palestinian people and their political movement, the PLO. Occupied Palestine clarifies a struggle that is fundamental, enduring, and remorseless. The film offers no formula or prediction as to an eventual resolution, just or unjust, for Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, inviting viewers to think for themselves about one of the most unrelenting conflicts of our time.

David R. Koff was an American documentary filmmaker who has focused on political subjects in Africa, the UK, the Middle East and North America. He was nominated for an Academy Award for "People of the Wind," a documentary feature he wrote and co-produced. His films include "The Black Man's Land Trilogy," on colonialism and nationalism in Africa; "Blacks Britannica," on race and class in Britain; and "Occupied Palestine," on Zionism and Palestinian resistance in Israel and Palestine. During the fifteen years he worked with UNITE HERE, the union representing hotel workers in North America, Koff produced and/or directed dozens of short films for organizing and mobilizing, with a special focus on immigrants' rights, including "The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride" Documentary Project, and "The New Haven Raids," with music by Ry Cooder.

Plus des infos: http://www.eyeonpalestine.be/portfolio/occupyied-palestina/

Source : http://www.eyeonpalestine.be/?lang=fr
Source : message reçu le 28 mars 17h