QUEER CINEMA FOR PALESTINE – Montreal Premiere with guests!

Join Cinema Politica Concordia for the Montreal premiere of FOGGY: PALESTINE SOLIDARITY, CINEMA & THE ARCHIVE for Queer Cinema for Palestine. The screening will be followed by a discussion with guests!

A collection of short films that stage hybrid acts of montage, juxtaposition, re-enactment and dialogue, exploring the theme of solidarity.

About the film

QUEER CINEMA FOR PALESTINE

Hadi Moussally, Elias Wakeem, Amy Gottlieb, Noor Gatih, Mike Hoolboom, Essa Grayeb, Lior Shamriz & Annie Sakkab / Palestine / 2023 / 1h 12m / English

How can family memories inform solidarity? How can avant-garde voices engaging the past contribute to activism today? How can private archives queer public histories? How do yesterday’s photographs become tomorrow’s pictures? FOGGY is a screening of recent short films that stage hybrid acts of montage, juxtaposition, re-enactment and dialogue, exploring the theme of solidarity as we make our way together through the fog. Length: 72 minutes.

SULTANA’S REIGN by Hadi Moussally, 2023, 10′

Portrait of a proud Palestinian drag queen

HOMECOMING QUEENZ by Elias Wakeem, 2023, 11′

Defiant Palestinian queen confronts border guards at Ben Gurion airport

TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT by Amy Gottlieb, 1987, 7′

Tribute to her radical mother’s activism and solidarity

KNOBS & CHAI by Noor Gatih, 2021, 4′

Stop motion conversation with a beloved grandmother

NAZARETH by Mike Hoolboom, 2023, 7′

A return to the Nakba of 1948, reframed by and reread through a single photograph

MY WHOLE HEART IS WITH YOU by Essa Grayeb, 2022, 9′

A study in what’s not said: all the gaps in Nasser’s 1967 legendary resignation speech.

EVEN A DOG IN BABYLON by Lior Shamriz, 11′

In collaboration with actor Myriam Ali-Ahmad, a radical staging of doubts & debates

THE POEM WE SANG by Annie Sakkab, 13′

Mediating layers of love, loss, forced migration, and finally, catharsis

Event details

This event is co-presented by Dhakira Collective, Mubaadarat, PAJU and Exposures MTL.

Admission is by donation ($5-10 suggested). The venue is wheelchair accessible. In order to prevent the spreading of COVID 19, wearing a mask at Cinema Politica Concordia events is strongly recommended.

More info: https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/foggy-palestine-solidarity-cinema-the-archive/