Cinema Workers for Palestine

🔻NEXT NO ART🔻 Our latest essay examines how the "world's largest documentary film festival" found itself normalizing the Zionist entity during an active genocide, and what led film workers & the Palestine Film Institute to boycott the festival. READ: @cinemovil/next-no-art-boycotts-and-bothsidisms-at-idfa-2023-547bee3b2cfc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@cinemovil/nex…

Tonight's screening is sold out online. We will have a limited amount of tickets for sale at the door. Come by 7pm to secure a spot in our rush line. 1131 Howe St, The Cinematheque.

Join us tomorrow to fundraise for the @palyouthmvmt Some folks from Artists for Palestine & Info Booth for Palestine will have booths set up in the lobby. Sobhi Al-Zobaidi will be there to introduce the evening. zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketin…

This is a temporary victory, but the Berlin-specific IHRA-clause is merely a symptom of a national issue. The 2017 adoption of IHRA as a federal guideline stands, regardless of this news. We call for a nation-wide rejection of IHRA. The call to STRIKE GERMANY remains unchanged!

See Hreash House by Rosalind Nashashibi & R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity by Mohanad Yaqubi this Tuesday Jan 23 at the Cinematheque. 7:30pm. Tix here: zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketin…

“I wanted to capture the sense of collective living that was going on there, that I just hadn't experienced on that scale before.'' -Rosalind Nashashibi, 2004 shorturl.at/tUX25

On Oct 28 a UiS organizer & Langara instructor gave a pro-Palestine speech and Zionist forces went after her job. This wasn't a single attack, but part of a larger assault on 🇵🇸 solidarity! Join UiS Tues, Jan 23, 12pm @ Langara-49th Station & rally against repression! #vanpoli

“Art will not disappear into nothingness,” Espinosa writes. “It will disappear into everything.” Read Physical Evidence by Nicholas Russell: reverseshot.org/features/3050/… R21 aka Restoring Solidarity by @MohanadYaqubi plays this Tuesday, Jan 23, tix in bio.

Save the date Jan 27 for the next big rally in Vancouver to stand with Palestine!

As Canada supports genocide in Palestine, it continues its own genocidal policy & actions against Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. We stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation. From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime Statement: healthworkersforpalestine.org/1559-2/

Hreash House (2004) by Rosalind Nashashibi plays January 23rd at the Cinematheque, tickets here: zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketin…

“The reason I wanted to restrict the film to the four walls of the house—you only ever see the inside or the façade—was because I felt that the home was the only place that you could really feel safe.” Rosalind Nashashibi, shorturl.at/hiUW4 @LUXmovingimage

Now showing: FORAGERS, a portrait of resistance through a community’s love of collecting wild plants by JUMANA MANNA A look at local foraging practices among Palestinians determined to protect their customs. For one week on lecinemaclub.com in collaboration with @Bidoun.

Trailer for R21 aka Restoring Solidarity by Mohanad Yaqubi (2022)

[..we can’t archive a revolution that’s still in process.] filmmakermagazine.com/119936-intervi… R21 aka Restoring Solidarity screens Tuesday, January 23 at The Cinematheque at 7:30pm. Tickets here: zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketin…

We are pleased to support Cinema Workers for Palestine @cwpyvr in screening Palestinian-made films at The Cinematheque next Tuesday, January 23. Tickets available by donation: zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketin… poster artwork by Rawan Hassan

still from R21 aka Restoring Solidarity by Mohanad Yaqubi (2022)

Presented with the support of @unitpitt under the banner of From The River to the Sea. Tickets in bio: $10, no one turned away for lack of funds. 100% of ticket sales & donations will go to the artists, speakers, & @palyouthmvmt Poster Artwork by Rawan Hassan