Bil'in my love, film screening today in Joe's
Joe's Garage - 25.04.2007 07:08
Tonight in Joe's Garage at 20:00 (Pretoriusstraat 28, Amsterdam), weekly film screening with Bil'in my love (Bil’in Habibti) Israel 2006. Director: Shai Carmeli Pollak. 85 min. The film is about the non-violent co-struggle of Israeli’s (‘Anarchists Against the Wall’), Palestinians and international activists against the wall and occupation in the village Bil’in in Palestine.
The film was recently shown in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it got the Special Mention prize in the Movies that Matter Award-ceremony. The film also won the Wolgin Award for Full-length Documentary Film 2006 at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.
This is a film about how one loses fear of an oppressive army, about the Palestinian struggle to maintain their land and demand their freedom and about an Israeli film maker who crosses the line and befriends a Palestinian village. Shai Carmeli Pollak did not come to Bil’in as a film maker, but as an activist to take part in the protest against the land theft caused by the separation barrier. For a year and a half, he used his camera to document the moments of despair and hope, danger and courage and the birth of true partnership between Palestinians and Israelis. During this period, the village has become a symbol of the joint struggle against the barrier and the occupation.
The director focuses on two central figures: Mohamed, a member of the village's local committee against the barrier, and Wagee, a farmer and father of ten, who is losing the majority of his land to the barrier and to the settlement. The film exposes the extraordinary relationship formed between the villagers and a group of Israeli activists, against the backdrop of their struggle. The conflict that arises between Shai and the soldiers serving in the area is not only between a director and the subjects he is documenting, but also the conflict between a former soldier turned peace activist and the entire military organization.
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Weekly Film Screening in Joe's Garage, every wednesday at 20:00 (free entrance). Provoking documentaries, movies off the beaten mainstream path and other material you probably wont be able to see outside of film festivals and similar special events.
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Later on this week in Joe's Garage:
Info-Night: 'Antimilitarist and Conscientious Objectors' Movement in Turkey.
Friday April 27th, 20:00, free entrance.
"Every Turkish man is born, so they say, a soldier. Fortunately, there are those who refuse to be one, even though Turkey does not recognize the right to conscientious objection. This event sets out to discuss the current situation of conscientious objection movement in Turkey from a historical and socio-political perspective.
After a short introduction about militarism in Turkey, two antimilitarists who have been actively involved in the movement, will talk about the Turkish military structure, the conscription and legal procedure concerning the objectors, the development of the movement since the 1990s, as well as the representation of the refusers in the media. After briefly comparing the Turkish case to those of the Israeli, Spanish and Latin American ones, we would like to discuss strategies for supporting the conscientious objectors from abroad. The evening will finish with a video screening of recent actions and an open debate."
Joe's Garage
Pretoriusstraat 28
Amsterdam
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