Provoked Narratives

Until 23 October, the Palestine Film Institute presents Provoked Narratives, a programme featuring ten films made between 1967 and 1984 in various contexts, each using different grammars of resistance, all live and resonant to this day. All films are freely available to stream on the Palestine Film Platform. Provoked Narratives is “an invitation, in this time of genocide and ongoing aggression, to understand the narratives created around Palestine as part of a long colonial project, a blueprint of violence. To consider the ways in which the camera, since its very inception as a new tool, has played a conflicted role in the project of empire. To consider how images have been co-opted, and to see how images can also resist.”

The programme reflects on the shifting gazes on the Palestinian struggle - from the humanitarian lens, to cinemas in solidarity and to the works of Palestinian filmmakers who devised new visual grammars in grief and in defiance. The films ponder questions of generational trauma and resistance, as well as the long history of solidarity between Palestine and Lebanon. The curators intend to enable learning, to stimulate discussion and action, to encourage viewers to build community, to gather around film screenings, and to support organizing and mobilizing.

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Front Image: Kufr Shuba (Samir Nimr, 1975)