Join us for a solidarity screening for Palestine at House of Annetta on Saturday, 1 June from 2pm to 9pm.
Screening times recurring at 3pm, 5pm and 7pm.
Featuring movies by Alaa Abu Asad, Francisca Khamis, Inas Halabi and Jumana Manna, the screening focuses on the role of the filming medium in revealing, constructing and concealing land memories.
All proceeds from this fundraiser will be directed to The Middle East Children’s Alliance.
With works by:
Alaa Abu Asad
Wild Plants of Palestine (2018), follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from Birzeit University to collect photos and information about Palestinian flora.
Duration: 10'00”
Francisca Khamis
In 31.42'49.5"N35.10'13.9" (2023), the director revisits the remnants of her family home in Al-Makhrour in Palestine that is inaccessible to her family. Khamis interweaves fact, fiction, histories and memories to reconstruct the house that lives on as a ghost in her family's oral tradition.
Duration: 10’35”
Inas Halabi
We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction (2019) explores the material effects of radiation (physically and metaphorically) and the possible burial of nuclear waste in the south of the West Bank. Radioactivity, invisible but deadly, is here a synecdoche for a more ungraspable invisibility—the systemic networks of power and control in the region and a meditation on how to account for the ungraspable.
Duration: 11’57”
Jumana Manna
Foragers (2022), depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs.
Duration: 64'00”
House of Annetta
25 Princelet St
London E1 6QH
Tickets: £10 (entrance costs) or £15 (suggested donation) depending on your circumstances.
Please purchase a ticket to attend the screening. The full amount of which will be donated to The Middle East Children’s Alliance who provides emergency assistance to Palestinian families who have fled their homes to seek shelter with relatives, as well as procuring emergency medical supplies for hospitals and clinics.
Opening times: 2pm to 9pm
Screening times: 3pm, 5pm, 7pm
Food and drinks will be available in the garden during the day
This event is part of “Resistance Until Reclamation”, a series initiated by Espacio Estamos Bien in 2023 taking place in Amsterdam, London, Santiago de Chile, and Bogotá with funds collected contributing to active Palestinian-led organisations and fundraisers. As we witness the ongoing genocide in Palestine, often alone behind our screens, we have to remember that we are not standing alone against oppression. We hope to create a space outside social media to have conversations and raise awareness. In a moment where many feel powerless, we hope to unify voices and find a moment of collective action.
If you can’t be present but wish to donate, a directly link is available here: https://chuffed.org/project/110132-hope-and-healing-for-children-in-gaza or https://www.mecaforpeace.org/donate/
Accessibility:
All movies have embedded subtitles.
A ramp access is available on the ground floor. There is only one outdoor all-gender toilet on site located in the garden. The toilet is not wheelchair accessible. The nearest free-of-charge accessible toilet is at Old Spitalfields Market, approximately 240m from House of Annetta, open 08.00-23.00.