Part of Media City Film Festival 2024

Razan AlSalah, Palestine/Canada, digital, 40 min, 2024

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice from land and labour. He is displaced from his birthplace, Haifa, seeking refuge in Beirut, and again to Zirku Island for work on an offshore oil platform and work camp in the Gulf. A Stone’s Throw trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and labour in the region and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. The film rehearses a history of the Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, the oil workers of Haifa blew up a BP pipeline.

Streaming Details: This film is available to stream globally.

Program Partners: This film is co-presented with Art Windsor-Essex and Prismatic Ground.