Directed by Razan AlSalah • 2024 • Canada, Lebanon, Palestine
Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice, from land and labor, from Haifa to Beirut to a Gulf offshore oil platform. A STONE’S THROW trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and labor in the region and the colonization of Palestine. The film rehearses a history of the Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, the oil laborers of Haifa blow up a BP pipeline.
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Ma’loul Celebrates Its Destruction
Directed by Michel Khleifi • 1984 • Palestine, Belgium
Ma’loul is a Palestinian village in Galilee which was destroyed by the Israeli armed forces in 1948. The former inhabitants are only allowed to visit once a year, on the anniversary of Israel’s independence, and have developed a new traditio...
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On the Battlefield
Directed by Little Egypt Collective • 2024 • United States
In the Southern Illinois region of Little Egypt, a sound recordist gathers sonic ephemera as he revisits the flat fields where once stood Pyramid Courts—the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of his hometown, C...
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Life on the CAPS: Parts 1&2
Directed by Meriem Bennani • 2018–2021 • Morocco
Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona a...
