Focus "Permission to Narrate" - Screening & Discussion

2025-05-23T16:00:00Z

Le Polygone étoilé, 1 Rue François Massabo, 13002 Marseille, France

Tickets: Free pricing without prior reservation (Caution: limited capacity) In the presence of Theo Panagopoulos (director of "The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing") and Diana Allan (director of "Partition") Screening followed by a discussion moderated by Claire Lasolle (co-founder of Videodrome 2 and member of the FIDMarseille selection committee) and by a dinner prepared by the festival team SOME STRINGS: extract from "Discourse on Colonialism" by Aimé Césaire 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: Newton Ifeanyi Aduaka Production of Some Strings project: Narimane Mari starring emil abossolo mbo, cinematography mathias raaflaub, assistant camera operator prisca bourgoin, sound amaury lebouteux and martin lanot, music emil abossolo mbo THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, WITNESSING UK | 2024 | 17 min | Documentary When a filmmaker of Palestinian descent based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender film essay questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and the land. Director: Theo Panagopoulos Production: Marissa Keating PARTITION Lebanon, Palestine, Canada | 2025 | 61 min | Documentary “Partition” fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recorded of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, tracing lines of continuity left by seismic displacement. Silent films gathered in imperial collections hold histories that have barely been told, and ways of colonial seeing that seep into the present; “Partition” uses dialectical montage and asynchronous sound to examine both. Recovering Palestinian presence through story, voice and song, unraveling colonial pasts through soundscapes of the precarious present, “Partition” is a meditation on what bodies remember and empires forget. Director: Diana Allan Production: Diana Allan