A series of contemporary films about Palestinian life and related issues,
including a look at the life and work of Edward Said, starting this
weekend at the Keystone Church.

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Hearts and Minds of Palestinian Resistance
Palestine Film Festival 2006

Saturdays October 28, and November 4 and 11th
at Keystone Church 5019 Keystone Place N., Seattle
0.4 miles west of the I-5 50th St. Exit - Metro Bus Routes 16, 26 & 44

Doors open at 6:30 pm.
All films screen at 7:00 pm and will be followed by related presentation
and discussion Suggested donation $5-10. No one turned away.

Saturday, October 28 - Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said
Emmanuel Hammoun, 2003, 54 mins.

Palestinian activist and scholar, Nada Elia, will speak after the film.

Known as one of America's great contemporary intellectuals and a
prominent
spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the United States, Said died in
September of 2003 at the age of 67.
Shortly before is death, a French film crew spent several weeks with him
and
his family. The result is SELVES AND OTHERS, an intimate documentary that
offers a glimpse at some of Said's final reflections on the themes that
dominated his life's work.

Saturday, November 4 - Palestine Blues
Nida Sinnokrat, 2005, 74 mins.

Featuring a display of recent art from Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Will
Hewitt, from Rafah Art Association and the Olympia-Rafah Sister City
Project, will be present and available to answer questions after the
film.

"Palestine Blues follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall
and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming
communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Instead of focusing on the
Wall as an object, Palestine Blues examines the grassroots resistance movement
that has sprung up against it. Palestine Blues is not a 'traditional' political
reportage but rather an interminable road trip across hard and liquid
borders, across a terrain that is being erased as it is being traversed."
-
N. Sinnokrot

Saturday, November 11th - Writers On the Borders
Samir Abdallah and Jose Reynes, 2002, 84 mins.

Amin Odeh of Voice of Palestine will lead discussion following the film.

In 2002, eight internationally renowned writers, poets and intellectuals
-
including American novelist Russell Banks and Nobel laureates Jose
Saramago and Wole Soyinka - traveled to the West Bank and Gaza to visit poet
Mahmoud Darwish and observe the state of the Palestinians living there.
Documentary filmmakers Samir Abdallah and Jose Reynes alternate scenes from the
writers' journey with testimonials from the Palestinian people, readings by
Darwish and reflections from the concerned authors as they bear witness to what
they see.

For more information visit http://www.palestineinformation.org/ or call
206-633-1086.

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