Three Short Films for Palestine
Presented by South Philly Autonomous Cinema & Philly Socialists
$10 suggested donation
South Philly Autonomous Cinema and Philly Socialists continue their Palestine screening series with another evening of film, solidarity, and fundraising, this time with three recent short films exploring Palestinian struggle and liberation.
The Battle of Empty Stomachs (2024, dir. Diana al-Halabi): Based on research and interviews with both Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers, this absurdist yet realist film stages a dialogue between the director and her mother tongue that centers on a single question: what do we know about hunger?
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2016, dir. Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind) resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity.
we would be freer (بنكون اكتر احرار) (2023, dir. Rana Nazzal Hamadeh) is a short film reflecting on the relationship between native plants and peoples living under settler-colonialism. Weaving between the voices of two women, one from the Mohawk community of Kahnawá:ke and the other an internally displaced refugee in Ramallah, we would be freer invites you to contemplate the role of the sumac plant in two occupied lands that lie far apart.
This event is all ages. Masks are requested to be worn except when eating or drinking and will be supplied at the door.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Born in Lebanon in 1990, Diana Al-Halabi is a Rotterdam–Beirut–based interdisciplinary artist working primarily with film and painting. Through an intersectional feminist lens, her practice navigates the entanglement of the personal and the political, challenging top-down structures of power — from the patriarchal gaze and institutional violence to bureaucracy, settler colonialism, migration, and visa regimes.
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh is a Palestinian artist based on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin land. Her photography, film, and installation works look at issues related to time, space, memory, and movement and offers interventions rooted in a decolonial framework. Rana holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Born in East Jerusalem, Larissa Sansour (PS/DK) studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York. Sansour is currently working on two new film projects, a short film commission for the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam and her first feature film, In Memory of Times to Come.