Cinema of Palestinian Return
Friday, May 3 – Saturday, May 18
Anthology Film Archives

The month of May marks the 76th year of the nakba, a commemoration soaked in the blood of Gaza, whose people have faced relentless massacre and dispossession by Western and Zionist forces. Preserving, circulating, and politically engaging with the cultural production of the Palestinian struggle is a minimum demand. The films that emerged from this struggle are tethered to the dreams of the Palestinian people, who despite setback and catastrophe continue to assert their right to return to their homeland.
 
“Cinema of Palestinian Return” is guest-programmed by Kaleem Hawa and Nadine Fattaleh.

LEBANON
Christian Ghazi
A HUNDRED FACES FOR A SINGLE DAY / MI’AT WAJEH LI YAWM WAHED
1972, 64 min, 35mm-to-digital. In Arabic with English subtitles.
“Made in 1969 and released in 1972, Christian Ghazi’s incendiary, avant-garde masterpiece is one of the filmmaker’s only two surviving early works. Through this fiction-documentary hybrid film, Ghazi forged a stinging critique of bourgeois society in Beirut during Lebanon’s pre-civil war period. An essay on labor, class, social relations, and resistance, Ghazi considered the film his ‘manifesto on cinema,’ a powerful and polemical work that reaches back to the early decades of film experimentation while pioneering radical techniques in multivalent sound, disjunctive montage, and an embedded perspective on direct action.” –ARTEEAST