Featuring films withdrawn from NYFF, Berlinale, & IDFA in solidarity with Palestine.

10$+ Suggested donations. Proceeds will go directly to the filmmakers & direct aid to Gazans.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 1 – 7:30PM – Program 1 – WITHDRAWN FROM IDFA  

ANIMALIA PARADOXA
Dir. Niles Atallah, 2024.
Chile. 80 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles.

A tale of metamorphisis of a post-apocalyptic being. In this eclectic fantasy of discarded dreams, echoes of an imaginary sea guide this amphibious creature towards a new dawn.

Prefaced by the NYC premiere of Palestinian filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi’s NYFF film, THE INVISIBLE WORM.

THE INVISIBLE WORM
Dir. Rosalind Nashashibi, 2024.
United Kingdom, 17min.
In Arabic with English Subtitles

Benjamin Britten’s elegiac musical setting of William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” supplies the title of Rosalind Nashashibi’s video, which unfolds as an elliptical cross-media dialogue between the multimedia artist Elena Narbutaitė, the sculptures of Marie Lund, and Nashashibi’s own paintings and camera. What emerges is a set of funny and deep reflections on artist-types and the contexts and meanings of art-making—as a place to breathe and wonder, or a form of wasting time. “Don’t take it all too seriously.”

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9 – 7:30PM – Program 2 – SHOVEL OR SPADE: WITHDRAWN SHORTS

MEHDI AMEL IN GAZA
Dir. Mary Jirmanus Saba, 2024.
Palestine. 14 min.
In Arabic with English subtitles.

THE SUN IS MISSING
Dir. Advik Beni, 2022.
South Africa. 8 min.

WHEN LIGHT IS DISPLACED
Dir. Zaina Bseiso, 2021.
Palestine. 7 min.
In Arabic with English subtitles.

LET’S GO TO THE MINES
Dir. Advik Beni, 2022.
South Africa. 3 min.

NEWSREEL 242 – SUNNY RAILWAYS
Dir. Nika Autor, 2024.
Slovenia. 31 min.
In Slovene with English subtitles.