Join Chicago Palestine Film Festival for another screening in their annual online series Falasteen Film Fridays. This week series will be three films, MARIAM, KOFIA and BLACKLISTED.

MARIAM (2020), 5 min, Dir. Dana Dur
Mariam undergoes a journey to find strength within herself through her culture and heritage, after the loss of her precious paradise. Preceded by the film:

KOFIA, A REVOLUTION THROUGH MUSIC (2021), 30 min, Dir. Louis Brehony
This an award-winning, internationally released documentary film about the Palestinian band Kofia (كوفية/'kuffieh'), formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, by songwriter George Totari, who fled his native Palestine in 1967. Facing racist Israeli colonisation, George and fellow Palestinian musicians teamed up with Swedish leftist performers and formed a band which would tour the world and release four albums dedicated to the Palestinian cause.

BLACKLISTED (2021), 23 min, Dir. Mohammed Almughanni
A Palestinian man is being interrogated for crossing the border under the suspicion of being a terrorist, while his true intentions remain hidden. Featured Cast Motaz Malhees, Yara Jarrar, Mohammad Bakri, Ashraf Dowani