Diverse Filmmakers Alliance

08/18/2024

Thank you to for collaborating on this screening and Q&A of Infiltrators, Khaled Jarrar’s 2012 documentary. Thank you @ for moderating. We appreciate everyone who came out to the Centering Palestine on Screen series and the discussion that followed. The watermelon juice was delicious 🍉

07/26/2024

Please join DFA AND on
Friday, August 9th
for Khaled Jarrar’s INFILTRATORS (2012, 70 min) is a visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank. Alternating between cigarette breaks, detours, waiting, and moving, INFILTRATORS depicts the cunning, unnerving, and constant struggle to defy captivity and occupation.

Post film Q&A with filmmaker moderated by Hussein Omar.
$15 general/$7 reduced admission

06/14/2024

June 20th, Thurs.

Join Diverse Filmmakers Alliance, Third World Newsreel, and Time of Day Media on Thur, June 20th and hear from activists at this free event. This is the third screening in the series “Centering Palestine on Screen.”

REFUSENIKS (2005) documents the stories of Israeli men and women who refused to serve in the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Preceded by the short film SPIRIT TWISTER.

RSVP via QR code (next photo) or link in bio

How to get to Bronx Music Heritage Center: #2 train to Freeman Street.
This is an accessible space

04/30/2024

Tonight! Some tickets opened up for Part 2 of our Palestine on Screen series. Come through! Third World Newsreel peoplesforumnyc

Join us for part 2 in a film series on Palestine with this documentary by Fida Qishta about two young women in Gaza.

04/29/2024

03/08/2024

Thank you to Brooklyn Public Library, Third World Newsreel, and Nadine Fattaleh for a great evening of films and dialogue.

03/08/2024

Thank you so much for coming to the inaugural screening in our series on Tuesday! If you enjoyed the event, please contact the library to let them know there is community support for this type of programming.
Thank you to Nadine Fattaleh for excellent moderation and context for the films.
Appreciate for being a partner.

More details about the April screening coming soon!
Free P@lestine. Ce@sef!re Now
🇵🇸🍉🎥

02/26/2024

Join Diverse Filmmakers Alliance and Third World Newsreel for FREE FILM SCREENINGS centering Palestine. This monthly series uplifts the voices of Palestinians to make connections around decolonial struggles experienced by the diverse communities of New York City. Following the screenings, we will thread through a chorus of perspectives that have been affected and are continuing the struggle against colonization and erasure, creating a space for the audience to contextualize the ongoing conflicts happening abroad and at home. Donations raised will go to Gazan journalists and Palestinian filmmakers.

WHERE: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, InfoCommons Lab, 10 Grand Army Plz, Brooklyn, NY 11238
WHEN: Tues, Mar 5th, 6-8pm.

This evening's films are:

Introduction to the End of an Argument [excerpt]
Elia Suleiman & Jayce Salloum, 1990, Color, 45 minutes
Replicating the tone of a dizzying and oversaturated news cycle, the filmmakers deconstruct how dominant narratives influence and hold power. Through archival footage and reenactments, the film shows how cultural representation dehumanizes a people through a perpetually colonial gaze, and critiques the pervasive racism in the media's portrayal of Arabs. Created in the '90s, reflecting the politics of the '80s, the film is as relevant as ever in these times.

Forbidden to Wander
Susan Youssef, 2003, Color, 35 minutes
FORBIDDEN TO WANDER is a captivating tale of love amidst adversity, chronicling a filmmaker's journey through the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The film offers a rare and intimate perspective on Palestinian lives, revealing aspirations and desires that both transcend and are shaped by the realities of their existence.

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/centering-palestine-central-library-info-20240305