Focus "Permission to Narrate" - Screening & Discussion

2025-05-25T16:00:00Z

Videodrome 2, 49 Cours Julien, 13006 Marseille, France

Tickets: Free pricing | Counter opens 30 minutes before the screening (Caution: limited capacity) Childcare provided by volunteers during the session! Please let us know you're coming by e-mailing [email protected] the day before at the latest. In the presence of Monica Maurer (director) SOME STRINGS: beyrouth, 2018 "kerosene" Filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed Some Strings, an ensemble of unreleased filmic gestures that is rooted in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer was targeted by Israeli strikes. In his last poem, "If I Must Die", he calls those who should live to create a kite - a long-standing object of resistance. Director: Valentin Noujaïm Production of the project Some Strings: Narimane Mari music malibu, "one life", 2018, poem nikki giovanni "for saundra", thanks to marc attallah WHY? Lebanon | 1982 | 26 min | Documentary Screening copy: AAMOD - Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico Warning: the film contains graphic material which might be disturbing or traumatizing to some viewers “Why?” documents the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the three-month siege of Beirut from June to August 1982, during which thousands of people were killed and maimed, the vast majority of them civilians (over 70%). The military strategy and many of the images from this period were the same as today's genocidal war in Gaza, with the aim of destroying any presence of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon, where the Palestinian resistance was based at the time. “Why?” deals with issues rarely or insufficiently addressed by the international media like the use of weapons (implosion and phosphorus bombs, fragmentation shells) often manufactured in the United States and prohibited by international law, and sheds light on the organization of civil defense by Palestinian-Lebanese popular committees. Director: Monica Maurer Production: Palestine Red Crescent Society THE DIARY OF A SKY Lebanon| 2024 | 44 min | Documentary “The Diary of a Sky” unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts. This 45-minute video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponization of the air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes a disconcertingly banal backdrop. Director: Lawrence Abu Hamdan Production: Lawrence Abu Hamdan