Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Thursday, Mar 13, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.

Location: Redstone Theater

Part of First Look 2025

SHOWCASE SCREENING 

Dir. Göran Hugo Olsson. 2024, 200 mins. Sweden/Finland. DCP. In Swedish, English, Hebrew, and Arabic with English subtitles. Working from thousands of hours of footage catalogued in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT, archival chronicler Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, Concerning Violence) unspools a rigorously cool and steely account of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists over the course of the Cold War era. A record of escalating colonial folly, whose political dimensions and catastrophic toll multiply and compound over the years, from the tenth anniversary of Israel’s founding to the crest of the First Intifada, this painstakingly assembled opus unearths perspectives and encounters—with statesmen, civilians, revolutionaries, and intellectuals—that recast and revivify a history still too little understood. U.S. premiere

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.