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The film screening will be followed by a discussion with film director Hind Shoufani. Screening will start on Saturday November 20, at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time. 2015, 2 hours, Arabic with English subtitles.
About the Film
“Trip Along Exodus” is a film/poem that recreates the last 70 years of Palestinian and Arab politics seen through the prism of the life of the filmmaker’s father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, an academic and leftist intellectual who was one of the leaders of the opposition to Arafat within Fatah for 20 years. The film language uses archive, poetry, family photos/8mm films, glitter, cartoons, animation, macro-photography, interviews, and other multimedia formats in a video-art amalgam—a personal and political memoir.
Born in Mi’liya in the Galilee and educated at the Hebrew University and Princeton, the multilingual and erudite Dr. Shoufani was also the Arab world’s leading analyst of Israeli affairs for more than a generation.
To understand why he gave up a tenured position at a US university and joined the underground PLO in Beirut, the filmmaker traced her family’s evolution through Palestine’s 20th century history, from the Nakba in 1948 to current day war-torn Syria, where the family lived for decades, peacefully.
The film travels through Washington DC, NYC, the Galilee, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, in search of the borders of family, the weight of a homeland and the price paid for it.
"Trip Along Exodus" has screened in over 30 festivals internationally, and won the Audience Award for best film at the Cairo International Women's film festival, the Best Non-European Documentary film at the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, as well as a special mention at the East End Film Festival in London. It has traveled from Japan to refugee camps, from Jerusalem to Vancouver, and the most gratifying part for Hind has been the universal love shown for her father and mother, two powerful Palestinian fighters, relentelessly determined to work for justice and freedom in their homeland.
About the Director
Hind Shoufani, Palestinian Film Director
Hind Shoufani is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer & poet. As a Fulbright scholar, she holds an MFA in filmmaking from NYU, and also attended the IWP at Iowa University. She has been working in the film & literature fields for over 20 years. Trip Along Exodus is her first feature documentary.
Her work won a BAFTA and was nominated for an Oscar, and she is currently finishing her second documentary feature "They Planted Strange Trees".
She authored two poetry books and edited two anthologies of literary essays, poetry & photography between Dubai and Beirut.
Hind has lived in Damascus, Amman, Beirut, NYC & Dubai but maintains her ancestral Palestinian identity at the center of her being, her politics & her work.