Palestine Pavilion at Cannes Film Festival 2020

Palestine Film Institute

Palestine Pavillion Programme Festival du Cannes 22-26 JUNE 2020

The Palestine Film Institute (PFI) is an international organisation involved with funding, preserving and promoting the cinema of Palestine. It seeks to support film productions from and for Palestine, through providing development and consultancy, increasing accessibility to funding, and connecting film talents and experts. The PFI is rooted in the tradition of committed cinema and the history of using independent film practice as a tool for social change.

This publication has been produced for the occasion of the Marche du Film, Festival du Cannes 2020 with the support of the French Consulate in Jerusalem.

Public Program Curator: Mohanad Yaqubi Pavilion Director: Rashid Abdelhamid Program coordinator: Rana Anani Research Assistant: Dima Sharif Copy Editor: Lama Al Nusair Designer: Hamza Abu Ayyash Backstage Director: Casey Asprooth Jackson

Contacts: info@palestinefilminstitute.org, www.palestinefilminstitute.org PFI Š June 2020 Palestine

Forward For the 3rd year, the Palestine Film Institute is proud to be organizing the Palestine Pavilion at Festival du Cannes 2020, due to the Cov id-19 pandemic, we were not able to physically gather the filmmakers and celebrate their films this year at the pavilion. As such, we decided to make it a time to listen, watch and reflect, by offering the virtual space of the pavilion to voices and sounds from the Palestinian diverse experiences of production. The virtual Pavilion is open to the world through its public program and has a focused industry program with a wider space for discussions about the current situations.

The public program is a set of events, panels and music, that is broadcasting live from the virtual Palestine Pavilion from 2226 June 2020. Some events will be through collaboration with Radio Alhara, other events will be through the Palestine Films Platform and PFI website.

Since we are aware that this experience crosses the borders of film practices to other art disciplines and scenes, we hope to collaborate with a wide reaching platforms such as Radio Alhara which will make it available to wider audiences.

The public program includes conversations at a distance, which focuses on the concept of Plan B: a term that Palestinian filmmakers are all too familiar with. These panels aim to connect these familiar experiences to one another, towards a greater understanding of how the Palestinian film scene will adapt to the latest developments in the international industry.

Also, since we are taking the time to reflect, we produced the radio program “Cannes ya Makan” prepared and presented by Micha Khalil, where she interviewed 5 filmmakers who had their film premiered at festival du cannes throughout the year, visiting again the red carpet moments and what it meant to the future of the films and their makers.

And in collaboration with the Palestine Film platform, the Film of the week has been included in the pavilion to screen one of the best films of the Palestinian revolutionary cinema “L”olivier” by the legendary Vancannes film group, as an alternative coproduction model. Also, we had our yearly Town hall meeting at zoom this year, which included more than 50 active members from the Palestinian film scene around the world, and discussed the objectives of the institutes.

Thanks to all our speakers, moderators, and supporters who accepted our invitation to discuss the state of Paestinian cinema in 2020, and share their experiences and thoughts regarding the future of the industry, and making it available to a wider audience.

The public program was produced in collaboration with Rana Anani, May Odeh, Omar Jabari Salamanca, Razan Al Saleh and Casey Asprooth-Jackson.

And our Special thanks goes to Micha Khalil, Raed Andoni and Yazan Khalili.

See you next Cannes Mohanad Yaqubi Public programme curator

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Plan B

Palestine Pavilion Online Roundtable Festival du Cannes 22-26 June 15h30- 16h30 Jerusalem Time @RadioAlHara.online @PalestineFilmInstitute.org

These round table conversations at a distance focus on the Plan B: a term that Palestinian filmmakers are all too familiar with.

These panels aim to connect these familiar experiences to one another, towards a greater understanding of how the Palestinian film scene will adapt to the latest developments in the international industry.

The 5 panels discuss current trends and turbulence facing Palestinian filmmakers and producers, not only in historical Palestine, but also in the diaspora and refugee camps, with the involvement of international experts. Each Panel will be for 50 minutes and will be broadcasted at Radio Al Hara, a community based online radio that came out during the first lockdown.

Thanks to all our speakers and moderators who accepted our invitation to discuss these issues, and share their experiences and thoughts regarding the future of the industry, and making it available to a wider audience.

Plan B program been produced in collaboration with Rana Anani, May Odeh, Omar Jabari Salamanca, and Casey Asprooth-Jackson.

Special thanks to Yazan Khalili.

Panel 1: Restricted Production 22 June 2020 (3h30 -4h30) Producing a Palestinian film is never a straight forward task, it involves a lot of planning, not only in terms of image production, but also to make sure your team is safe, that you have the right permissions and that you have another plan - if the original plan doesn’t work. In this panel, we will hear from experienced producers who had to go through this every time they made a film with the involvement of Palestinians, Moderated by the legendary filmmaker Jihan El Tahri, who has the experience of filming palestinian stories since the 70s, from Lebanon and Tunis to Palestine.

Jihan El Tahri (Moderator) An Egyptianborn French filmmaker who began her career as a foreign correspondent covering Middle East politics for the Financial Times, Washington Post, and US News & World Reports. ElTahri has since produced and directed several documentaries, including the trilogy Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs (2016), which follows the lives of three successive presidents of Egypt: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Al-Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak; The House of Saud (2004), which looks at Saudi–US relations through portraits of the kingdom’s monarchs; and Behind the Rainbow (2008), which was made during the transition period of a newly independent South Africa. She is also a visual artist, where her work revisits moments of Independence, and decolonization.

Farrah Abu Kharoub A Palestinian born in Lebanon, has a BA in Filmmaking from the Lebanese University in Beirut (2014). She also works as an Editor and Cinematographer for her personal projects and for documentaries that were produced by renowned Arab TV stations. She is currently pursuing her MFA degree in film directing from FAMU International in Prague and developing her first feature film The wind above the clouds. Her past films that were selected in various festivals are Nafas (2014), Florentina (2015), and Summer 2006 (2018) that premiered in 22nd Jihlava IDFF.

Rula Naser A Jordanian film producer, her involvement in the film industry started in 1999, working on several International productions for the BBC, Discovery channels. She later joined the Royal Film Commission of Jordan for five years and established The Filmmaker’s Support Program. Nasser produced many local films including “The Last Friday” which was the first Jordanian film at Berlin international FF 2011, “Waiting for P.O.Box “ was in the official competition of the Cannes Short International Film Festival 2012. “My Love Awaits Me by the Sea” at Toronto Film Festival 2013.

Nasser also line produced many international & Regional films for Hany Abu Assad, Mijke de Jong, Mia Hansen-Love and Xavier Gianno.

Osama Bawardi An independent producer working in Palestine and Jordan. Bawardi has been involved in various productions including Salt of this Sea, Paradise Now, and Waiting for Salah Al Din. He produced the feature film When I Saw You that won the NETPAC award for Best Asian Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. He produced Horizon, In Overtime, and co-produced Mai Masri’s 3,000 Nights. He also directed and produced the short film Haneen (2010). He is the line producer of numerous films both fiction and documentary. Most recently he line produced Amin Matalqa’s The Rendezvous starring Stana Ktatic as well as Barbara Eder’s Thank you for Bombing. Bawardi is a member of the EAVE producer’s network and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy.

Panel 2: New Waves of Digital Distribution 23 June 2020 (3h30 -4h30) New digital platforms have been emerging as a way of distribution for sometime now, and due to the Covid 19 Pandamic, these platforms have been seeing an intensive viewing rates, indicating that the time has come to move forward with such distribution channels, but also this indicates a shift in the watching habits for audiences, how can this be useful for Palestinian image makers, especially for an industry that doesnt own its theater or tv channels, how can this be an economy that producers should think about. This panel will address these issues forecasting an alternative future to reach wider audiences around the world bypassing the classical gatekeepers.

Ola AlShiekh (Moderator) A film critic for Al-Hayat magazine. She is also responsible for cinema pages in the newspaper “Emarat Alyoum”. Ola is a member of “Critics without borders” in Sweden and she programmed movies at the “Women’s Cinema Festival” in Sweden in 2018. She was a Jury Member for many events such as the selection of Palestinian film competition in the Oscars 2017 and 2018, the MAFF Development Funding in Malmo- Sweden 2017, the documentary films in “days of cinema” 2016 in Palestine. She took part in the selection of the 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time at BBC Culture Poll 2017 and of the 10 Greatest Non-English-Language at BBC Culture Poll 2018. Last but not least, she was part of the jury which selected the best Arabic film, director, writer, and actor in “Cannes Film Festival” in May 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Tareq Aby Loghud Tareq Abu-Lughod graduated from Boston University in 1996 with a degree in Broadcasting & Film. He is the founder and CEO of Arab Media Network - a diverse media and entertainment company based in Amman, Jordan (established in 2000).which owns and operates multiple media ventures, including Istikana.

Irit Neidhardt The head of mec films, an international distribution and sales company for films by Arab directors, based in Berlin. In the international catalogue are, e.g., the short Sci-Fi’s of Larissa Sansour or Ghassan Halwani’s Erased, Ascent of the Invisible. mec film’s latest theatrical release in Germany is Annemarie Jacir’s Wajib. Irit is co- producer of several feature Arab documentaries, among them Simon Habre’s The One Man Village and Kamal Aljafari’s Port of Memory. She is a curator of film programs dealing with the Arab World and author of various articles on subjects related to cinema and the Arab World.

May Odeh Born in Birzeit-Palestine. She is a director and producer, known for “ Maradon’s Legs” 2019 , “Gaza by Her” (2017), “The Crossing” (2017), “Drawing for Better dreams” (2015), “Diaries” (2011), “Searching for Napoleon” (2006), “Unknown Soldiers” (2014), ROSHMIA “2014”, and Izriqaq “2013”, She worked on the production and distribution of many Palestinian fiction and documentary films.

She is the founder of ODEH FILMS; a production company aiming to produce and distribute creative documentary and fiction films. May has a Master’s Degree in film and production from Lillehammer University in Norway. Odeh curated and organized various film programs including Red Carpet Film Festival, and Mobile Cinema - which aims to touring around villages and communities in area C to screen entertainment films for families and kids. She has been recently working in a variety of Art projects research including film, photography, cocking, and writing.

Panel 3: Palestinian Film Festivals, What’s Next?

24 June 2020 (3h30 -4h30) With growing concerns about cinema screenings and the effect on public health, going online might please a wide audience spread over different geographical locations, yet what are the hurdles in this road? This panel examins how Palestinian Film Festivals are dealing with these issues, and how they are planning for the future. The speakers will discuss if going online is the way forward, and how this might affect the submissions, audiences and the future of Palestinian film festivals.

Rana Anani (Moderator) Anani is a writer and a researcher of visual arts and culture. Her articles are published on several platforms in Palestine and the region. She was an associate curator of Sharjah Biennale, Ramallah Project “Shifting Grounds” in 2017, the coordinator of the Palestinian Pavilion at Cannes Film Festival (2018-2020), the Head of Communication at the Palestinian Museum (2013-2016) and a media and project manager of Qalandiya International art biennale (2012 - 2018). She is currently the content editor of the digital platforms at the Institute for Palestine Studies.

Lena Mansour Lena Mansour is a cultural manager based in Haifa and is mainly focused on the Haifa Independent Film Festival which she co founded with her friends in 2015. She is involved with several local Palestinian productions which strives to create an independent autonomous Palestinian culture in the occupied 48 territories.

Rawan Odeh Rawan Odeh is a cultural events producer and programmer. She is also a co-founder and a committee member at Festival Ciné-Palestine (FCP). The event, running into its sixth edition this year 2020, is dedicated to screening Palestinian cinema, providing a mingling platform for Palestinian filmmakers, producers and industry professionals, and raising the profile of Palestinian fiction and documentary. Beyond FCP, Rawan has coordinated intercultural programming in multidisciplinary art projects in Palestine and in France. She was also an invitee at several international festivals, workshops and masterclasses.

Yousef Salhi Founder and Director of Elia Short Films Festival in Jerusalem. Yousef established an initiative called “We Have A Cinema Now” in Jerusalem in 2014 to produce Shorts Films. Within this initiative, Yousef also hosts training workshops for making short films, and these include: Animation workshops. He is the founder of Elia Short Films Festival in its first Editon that was launched in September 2018. ESFF is the first Palestinian festival that started in Jerusalem. And it will be an annual festival that attracts the short Arabian Movies to participate in it.

Christina Zahran Christina Zahran, is based in Jerusalem and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Films Production from Dar Al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture. She worked for several years as a “Next Generation Program” trainer as well as coordinator and Film programmer for kids and families at Palestine Cinema Days Film Festival. She was the coordinator of “Bethlehem Student Film Festival 2019”. Moreover, she has attended many workshops focused on building an audience and represented FilmLab and Palestine in many international Festivals such as; Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand film festival and CPH:DOX festival.

Panel 4: Coproducing Palestinian Narratives 25 June 2020 (3h30 -4h30) Would it be possible to think of co production without sovereignty? And what is the legal environment required to do such a complicated operation? Are there other ways? And is collaboration restrained to co production treaties? These questions and more will be discussed with 2 legendary film producers with more than 25 years of extensive experiences in International co-production including with Palestine.

Mohanad Yaqubi (Moderator) A filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house, Idioms Film. Yaqubi is also one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films that focuses on militant film practices, and most recently, a resident researcher at KASK, School of the Arts in Gent.

Ina Fichman For twenty-five years, Ina has been producing award-winning documentary and fiction films for television and theatrical release, as well as digital projects. In 2014, Ina completed production on the animated documentary feature THE WANTED 18 directed by newcomer Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan and Sturla Gunnarsson’s MONSOON, both of which had their world premieres at TIFF and are still doing the festival and theatrical circuit. THE WANTED 18 was released in theatres in the US in Summer 2015 and won the Best Documentary Award at the Traverse City Film Festival.

THE WANTED 18: an interactive graphic novel is available on ITunes and Google Play.

In 2015, Intuitive completed the feature documentary VITA ACTIVA: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt directed by Ada Ushpiz which had its international premiere at IDFA, won the Best Documentary prize at Santa Barbara, was broadcasted all over the world and was released in theatres in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. Emmy-nominated THE OSLO Diaries had its world premiere at Sundance 2018 and sold to HBO. Intuitive also produced the award-winning feature doc LAILA AT THE BRIDGE (dir. Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei) which premiered at CPH:Dox and screened at numerous festivals including Locarno, Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc Fest and DOC NYC. Intuitive Pictures is currently in production the co-production BLUE BOX (dir. Michal Weits), Shannon Walsh’s feature THE GIG IS UP, the VR installation and web doc series ONCE UPON A SEA and DON’T WORRY, THE DOORS WILL OPEN, a feature doc directed by newcomer Oksana Karpovych.

Nicolas Wadimoff Born in 1964 in Geneva and is a Swiss director, documentary filmmaker and producer. He is the cofounder of Etat d’Urgences, an association managing the cultural centre USINE in Genève.

Nicolas founded Akka Films, devoted to the development of fiction films and production of documentaries. He has directed more than 20 films, both fiction and documentaries, among them the multi awarded Clandestins (1997), Aisheen, Still Alive In Gaza (2010), Operation Libertad (2012), Spartiates (2014), Jean Ziegler, The Optimism Of Willpower (2016) and The Apollo Of Gaza (2018) which have been shown at major international film festivals such as Berlinale, Festival del film Locarno, Canne’s Director’s Fortnight, etc. recently he is the director of HEAD- Geneve.

Panel 5: Filming Revolution, Building Solidarities 26 June 2020 (3h30 -4h30) During the long 1960s, filmmakers across the globe developed militant cinema traditions that aspired to break the prison of the image and to transform the world. Revolutions were fought with bullets, demonstrations and strikes but also with posters, songs and films. From Algiers, Chile and Guinea Bissau to Palestine and Vietnam, this cinema was central in the creation and circulation of revolutionary and liberation imaginaries. If these films remain a lively and contemporary archive that can guide us through our troubled times, so will the stories of how filmmakers themselves experienced this wave of cultural resistance.

In this conversation, with Khadija Habassneh, Miguel Littin and Sana Na N’Hada (TBC), we foreground the lived politics and poetics of those that collectively conspired to build a better future through cinema.

Omar Jabary Salamanca (Moderator) is a research fellow and lecturer based at Ghent University. He is also the leading programmer for Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival.

Khadijeh Habashneh Filmmaker, researcher and consultant Khadijeh Habashneh (former Abu Ali) began working with the Palestine Film Unit as a volunteer, moving on to working full time in 1974, when the film unit evolved into the Palestinian Cinema Institute (PCI). Between 1976 and 1982, she was the Head of the «Archive and Cinematheque» department at the PCI. She wrote scripts and directed two documentary films including Children Without Childhood, which is also known as Children Nevertheless, and Women from Palestine, which was lost during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

She was a founding member and worked as member of executive committee of the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW) between 1980 and 2009. She was also a founding member and Vice President at the Center for Women Studies in Jordan (1989-1992). Khadijeh Habashneh has worked extensively on women’s issues as well as cinema, having taught and published a number of books and articles in this field. And she has coordinated national campaigns for enhancing women’s participation in elections in Jordan (1996) and in Palestine (2002-2005). Habashneh is also member of board of Palestinian Woman Research and Documentation Center (PWRDC) and is involved in various human rights and cultural organizations.

Miguel Littín A major Latin American film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist. He was born to a Palestinian father, Hernán Littin and a Greek mother, Cristina Cucumides. In 1969, Littín directed the popular El Chacal de Nahueltoro, becoming a figure of the New Latin American Cinema. He went into exile shortly after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a military coup, which ousted the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973. His 1973 film The Promised Land was featured in the Cannes Film Festival, New York film festival and the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. While in Mexico he directed several films, including Letters from Marusia, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, El Recurso del Método (Long Live the President) and The Widow of Montiel. Then, in Nicaragua, he produced Alsino and the Condor, which won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival.

After moving to Spain in 1984, Littín made Acta General de Chile, a film which in turn became the subject of the book Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin by Nobel author Gabriel García Marquez. After his return to Chile, he continued to make films, including Tierra del Fuego and Dawson Island 10. His films Actas de Marusia and Alsino and the Condor were nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Film in a Foreign Language. His 2005 film The Last Moon was entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.

Cannes Ya Makan by Micha Khalil

Palestinian Filmmakers remmbering the glory Festival du Cannes 22-26 June 11h30- 12h00 Jerusalem Time @RadioAlHara.online @PalestineFilmInstitute.org

Podcast by Micha Khalil looking at the experiences of Palestinian filmmakers premiering at the Cannes film festivals throughout the years. Each episode will invite one filmmaker to answer sets of questions that reflects on the backstage process of making films and its relation to the audience, their thoughts about it, and how it affects their careers. This will be a chance to have an insight view from the behind the scenes of the film industry.

Five episodes, 30 minutes long will be pre-recorded and conducted in Arabic and will include clips from the films, archival interviews, and sound design.

Basil Khalil

22 June (11:30) Basil is an Academy Award and Palme d’Or nominated writer and director, born and raised in Nazareth, to a Palestinian father and British-Irish mother. Screen International Magazine named Basil as one of the “Top 10 Arab filmmakers to watch”. Basil’s Oscar nominated short film AVE MARIA was described by the New York Times as; “The Middle Eastern answer to ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’.”

The film premiered in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 before going on to screen at more than 200 film festivals and winning over 40 awards.

Anne Marie Jacir 23 June (11:30)

She has been working in independent cinema since 1998 and has written, directed and produced a number of award-winning films including Until When, A Few Crumbs for the Birds, and a Post Oslo History. She was named one of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema.

Her short film, like twenty impossibles was the first Arab short film to ever be an official selection of the Cannes International Film Festival and went on to be a Student Academy Awards Finalist, winning more than 15 awards at International festivals including Best Film at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, Chicago International Film Festival, Institute Du Monde Arabe Biennale, Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival, and IFP/New York. like twenty impossibles was named one of the ten best films of 2003 by Gavin Smith of Film Comment Magazine (Editors Choice), is a fiction film which wryly questions artistic responsibility as a Palestinian film crew navigates various obstacles of the Israeli military occupation. In 2018, she returned to the Cannes Film Festival, this time joining the Un Certain Regard Jury, presided by Puerto Rican/American actor Benicio del Toro.

Arab & Tarzan Nasser 24 June (11:30)

Twin brothers Tarzan and Arab hail from Gaza. They were born in 1988, one year after the last cinemas in Gaza were closed. After graduating in fine arts from Al-Aqsa University, the brothers developed their passion for filmmaking. In May 2013, their short film Condom Lead premiered in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival as the first Palestinian film in this section. DĂŠgradĂŠ is their first feature film selected in competition at La Semaine de la Critique.

Maha El-Haj

25 June (11:30) Haj was born in Nazareth. She was educated in the Baptist Christian school in Nazareth, though both her parents were communist activists. Under her father’s influence she began studying pharmacy science, but She began her cinematic career working as a set designer, script doctor, and art director on films such as Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains (2009), Ziad Doueiri’s The Attack (2012); followed by Adi Adouan’s Arabani (2014) and Rafael Najari’s Over the HIlltop (2014).

In 2009, she wrote and directed the short film Burtuqal, which was released to critical acclaim, and was screened at many international film festivals, afterwards the documentary film Within These Walls (2010). She achieved international recognition in 2016 with her film Personal Affairs, which had its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard section.

Michel Khleifi 26 June (11:30)

In September 1970, Khleifi left the city of Nazareth in Galilee and found a refuge in Brussels, where he devoted himself to the art of cinema. It was only a decade later that he returned to the place of his birth to shoot Fertile Memory,. It portrays the lives of two women bearing the weight of a double occupation: both the burden of Israeli domination and the restrictions of patriarchal society. By showing the lived complexity of life under occupation, in all its contradictions and its singularities, Khleifi’s film marked an important shift in the history of Palestinian cinema and became the first Palestinian film to be shown at festival du Cannes (1981), His subsequent work, contained such widely celebrated films as Wedding in Galilee (1987) and Route 181 (2003, made in collaboration with Eyal Sivan) Khleifi continued to re-envision Palestine-Israel as a heteroglossic multiplicity of trajectories set out by individuals who manage to lift their thoughts and efforts to meet the challenges and violences imposed on them.

Film of the Week

Palestine Film Platform Event Festival du Cannes 24 June 17h00 Jerusalem Time @Palesitnefilmplatform @PalestineFilmInstitute

The Palestine Film Platform is an initiative by PFI team to offer a free Palestinian feature film every wednesday, and for the week of the Marche du Film, we offer L’olivier, a feature from the time of revolution.

L’Olivier

Groupe Cinéma Vincennes 1976, 83 min, 16 mm L’Olivier responds to a concern that the French public support for the Palestinian cause was diminishing in the wake of the 1972 Munich operation. Structured to chronicle the Palestinian story and to explain the current chapter in the struggle, the film calls for global militant solidarities and, particularly, for European political engagements.

Directed by Ali Akika, Guy Chapoullie, Danièle Dubroux, Serge Le Péron, Jean Narboni, Dominique Villain / Mixage: Michel Commo / Documents: Visnews, Newsreel, ORTF, Cinemathequ Palestinienne, Video.Out / Composition: Mustafa Al-Kurd / Illustrations: Mustapha Al-Hallaj / Duration: 83 min/ Language: French, English, Arabic, & Hebrew

TownHall meeting

Palestinian film industry meeting (Invitation only) Festival du Cannes 25 June 17h00 Jerusalem Time @Zoom/ PalestineFilmInstitute

The Town Hall meeting is organised as part of the Palestine Pavilion at Festival du Cannes program. This is a meeting for filmmakers from Palestine, producers and Palestine film festival curators: a gathering to meet each other, voice and prioritize the challenges we’re collectively facing and discuss how our network of filmmakers-producers-curators, vis-a-vis a structure like PFI, can support the development, production and distribution of Palestinian films.

The Town Hall will take place on Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 5 PM Jerusalem time on Zoom. A link will be sent out upon registration.

Closing Party This has been a favorite Cannes party event in the past 2 years and we are still thinking of the best format to organize it. Presented by SAMA DJ, DJ Bash Rash and AS AA S,