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SHORT FILMS: SOLIDARITY & PROMISE

  • Gene Siskel Film Center 164 North State Street Chicago, IL, 60601 United States (map)

We present a day of short films all themed around solidarity and promise.

MAWTINI (MY HOMELAND)

2023, dir. Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller, 19 min.

Together Nawal, a young Palestinian woman, and Tanya, an older Indigenous woman, start a guerrilla garden on the lawn of their apartment building and battle middle management to make it to harvest.

An indigenous woman and a Palestinian woman share a quiet moment huddled under a warm blanket.

REMEMBERING WATER

2024, dir. Tom Callahan, 34 min.

What have Irish Americans forgotten? What can we remember? And how can we be a part of creating a world where Palestine and all of us are free?

An overhead shot of a man swimming in a green sea.

DANCING PALESTINE

2023, dir. Lamees AlMakkawy, 37 min.

To dance is to remember, to dance is to remind. As the Palestinian identity continues to be threatened with erasure, Palestinians turn to their folk dance, the dabke, as an homage to their history and culture, and to assert their existence.

A projection of Palestine over a woman wearing a white shirt and a keffiyeh.

AHMAD ALIVE

2024, dir. Ahmad Ghunaim, 37 min.

This short film chronicles the harrowing journey of Gazan travel vlogger Ahmad Ghunaim, unexpectedly thrust into the role of a war correspondent after October 7th and is a testament to survival against all odds and a stark, unflinching account of covering a genocide.

The director of the film sits on a bed with the wall missing behind it, showing a vista of Gaza in the background.
Earlier Event: April 12
OPENING NIGHT: A STATE OF PASSION
Later Event: April 13
THE PROMISE

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