Headfirst Editor's Pick
"Double showcase of shorts from a guiding light of diasporic experimental cinema: Larissa Sansour. As If No Misfortune….is a visually astonishing ballet of destruction and surreal beauty, melding Western opera and Palestinian traditional song into an aria for a nation’s trauma. "
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A event held at Arnolfini on Thursday 5th December. The event starts at 19:30.
'As if no misfortune had occurred in the night' + 'Familiar Phantoms'
Thursday 5th December 19:30-21:35 (doors open at 19:00)
Arnolfini
Plus a Q&A with Sabrin Hasbun with Ali Roche, Producer of 'As if no misfortune had occurred in the night'.
Dirs. Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind (2023)
77 mins
A double bill of sci-fi film from Palestinian director Larissa Sansour, with Søren Lind, featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning and inherited trauma, followed by a personal and experimental documentary shot in a derelict mansion inspired by Sansour’s own family past.
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
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Thursday 5th December 19:30-21:35 (doors open at 19:00)
Arnolfini
Plus a Q&A with Sabrin Hasbun with Ali Roche, Producer of 'As if no misfortune had occurred in the night'.
Dirs. Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind (2023)
77 mins
A double bill of sci-fi film from Palestinian director Larissa Sansour, with Søren Lind, featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning and inherited trauma, followed by a personal and experimental documentary shot in a derelict mansion inspired by Sansour’s own family past.
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
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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