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A monthly film series centered around SWANA stories by SWANA voices

04/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who gathered with us on December 18 at the for our screening of Raed Andoni’s Ghost Hunting.

It was an evening shaped by reenactment and deep listening — by hands copying poetry, bodies remembering, and a shared willingness to sit with what lingers after violence. Together, we made space for ghosts, for gaps in history, and for a kind of witnessing that refuses spectacle in favor of care.

With gratitude to for sustaining Deeply Rooted, to and the for holding this space with such generosity, and to for nourishing our community and for for being a star collaborator and volunteer this year.

Thank you to everyone who slowed down, participated, and bore witness alongside us.
We’ll be sharing more soon about what Deeply Rooted is tending in the year ahead.

09/12/2025

Our final film screening of the year features Raed Andoni’s GHOST HUNTING (2017), a powerful hybrid documentary in which former Palestinian detainees reconstruct the interrogation center where they were held — reclaiming memory, testimony, and agency through reenactment.

The screening will be preceded by a short talk by film programmer Zeinah Kalati, on the role of art and fiction in understanding the carceral experience.

📅 December 18, 7PM
📍 Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
🎟 Free / by donation. RSVP at the 🔗 in bio
🧵 Supported by

28/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Thursday for our screening of The Teacher and The Cycle Continues by Yasmina Alburqawi, It was a thoughtful, full evening, and we’re grateful to everyone who came out and held these films with care.

Huge thanks to for supporting Deeply Rooted, to and for hosting us, and to for nourishing our community at every screening.

And thank you to Yasmina for sharing her film — it was an honour to spotlight an emerging Palestinian filmmaker. Stay tuned for an announcement from about Yasmina’s zine coming out next year

We’ll see you again in December. 🌿

12/11/2025

Farah Nabulsi’s THE TEACHER touches on a reality that thousands of Palestinians continue to face today: the systematic demolition of homes and the criminalization of simply existing on one’s own land.
House demolitions are not isolated incidents—they are part of a policy of displacement, erasure, and control.
🎞 The Teacher (2023)
Screening November 20, 7PM at alongside a short film by Yasmina Alburqawi,
🎟 Free / by donation / 20 spots left - 🔗 at the bio to RSVP
Supported by

06/11/2025

This month’s Deeply Rooted screening begins with a short film by Yasmina Alburqawi, , a young Palestinian filmmaker/writer and recent York University student whose work moves tenderly through exile, memory, and the desire to return.

Yasmina’s professor — and our dear friend — has been championing her voice, and we’re honored to help bring her work to the screen for the first time

Yasmina originally created a zine to accompany her film, which will be published next year. In the meantime, attendees of this screening will receive a printed poem of hers — a small offering from her larger body of work, rooted in love, displacement, and remembrance.

🎞 Screening alongside The Teacher (dir. Farah Nabulsi)
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📆 November 20, 7PM
🎟️ Free / by donation / 🔗 in the bio to RSVP.
🧵 Supported by

27/10/2025

Occupation demands silence. Teaching demands voice.

Farah Nabulsi’s (.nabulsi )The Teacher (2023) follows a Palestinian educator caught between the grief of loss and the courage of resistance — asking what it means to hold onto integrity when everything is under siege.

Screening with a short film by Yasmina Alburqawi ( ) November 20 at

Entry is PWYC // secure a spot at the 🔗 in bio

22/10/2025

Our next Deeply Rooted screening brings together two Palestinian filmmakers from different generations and geographies—each offering their own way of seeing, remembering, and returning.

We’ll begin with a short film by Yasmina Alburqawi, THE CYCLE CONTINUES, a young Palestinian filmmaker whose work, made while studying at York University, reflects on exile and belonging. Attendees will also receive a printed piece of her writing—a glimpse of a zine she’ll publish next year.

Following her short, we’ll screen .nabulsi Farah Nabulsi’s THE TEACHER, which had its world premiere at TIFF in 2023, a powerful feature that traces the moral weight carried by a Palestinian educator navigating occupation and loss.
📽️ The Teacher (dir. Farah Nabulsi)
📽️ The Cycle Continues (dir. Yasmina Alburqawi)
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📆 NOV 20, 7PM
🎟️ Link in bio to secure a spot // PWYC

17/10/2025

Last night’s screening of Foragers by Jumana Manna ( ) was a full house — and a full heart.

Thank you to Dr. Ghada Sasa ( ) for grounding the evening with her powerful talk on green colonialism, reminding us how even the language of environmental care can be weaponized to justify dispossession. Her words opened the night with clarity and care.

Endless gratitude to Jude Akrey ( ) and the for hosting us so warmly, and to for their support and solidarity in bringing this event to life.

And to everyone who came, filled the room, and gave so generously — together we raised $450 for mutual aid request for Palestine. Thank you for turning attention into action.

Foragers reminds us that love of land, food, and memory is not a metaphor — it’s a practice of resistance

15/10/2025

ALMOST SOLD OUT!
Tomorrow, a screening of Jumana Manna’s Foragers. A film that quietly unravels an entire cosmology—of land, belonging, criminalization, sustenance, and love.
Through the gathering of wild plants like akkoub and za’atar, the film reveals how the simplest acts of care for the land are turned into crimes under occupation.
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Join us at to bear witness to this beautiful work with a talk by Dr. Ghada Sasa on green colonialism—how the language of “environmental protection” is weaponized to justify dispossession.
Make sure to RSVP at the 🔗 in bio as we’re almost at full capacity

30/09/2025

“I am nature”
~ Ahmed, a Palestinian farmer, when asked if he’s aware that it’s illegal to pick wild growing za’ater
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FORAGERS will be screening at October 16, 7PM
Preceded by a talk on green colonialism by
RSVP and donate at the 🔗 in bio to help us raise funds for mutual aide request tents in Gaza
Co-presented with &
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24/09/2025

FORAGERS is our October film
( 2022 65 min)
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Co-presented with &
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Elderly Palestinians face a conflict between their traditional right to forage on their land and strict restrictions imposed by occupiers claiming preservation.
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A talk on green colonialism by Dr. Ghada Sasa, will precede the film
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📆OCT 16, 7PM
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🔗To RSVP, link in bio
🎟️Entry by donation ~ all funds raised going to mutual aid request to help community member’s family buy tents in Gaza
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Supported by

24/07/2025

Still holding the resonance of last week’s screening of LEILA AND THE WOLVES. A layered remembering. A night where story, history, performance, and resistance moved through the room together.
We’re so grateful to have partnered with and for this event. Their words before and after the film added necessary depth, historical grounding, and emotional honesty.
The Q&A that followed reminded us that curiosity is alive—and that people want to learn, ask, and unlearn together.

Thank you to everyone who came, who listened, who asked, who sat with the hard questions. You made the space what it was.
Thank you to and as always for the support.

Let’s keep tending. Let’s keep remembering. Let’s keep showing up.

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