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Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, Duration: 20 minutes; English subtitles. Released in 2019. The film screening will be followed by discussions with film director Mahasen Nasser-Eldin.
About the Film
26 October 1929; a day in the life of the Palestinian women’s movement.
Synopsis
On 26 October 1929, Palestinian women launched their women's movement in Jerusalem. Approximately 300 women converged into the city from all over Palestine. They held a silent demonstration through a car convoy across the city in protest at the British High Commissioner's bias against Arabs in the Buraq uprising. This is their story.
Mahasen Nasser-Eldin
About the Film Director
Jerusalem-born filmmaker and researcher Mahasen Nasser-Eldin, tells stories of resistance and resilience, crafting carefully researched and scripted narratives that restore new life to forgotten figures and celebrate those on the margins of society. Mahasen’s research focuses on the re/ use of audio and visual archives in the writing of displaced women’s historical narratives through film. Her work is interdisciplinary and draws on different bodies of literature relating to archive practice, subaltern histories, transnational feminism and subjectivity. Mahasen’s films screened in international film festivals and her documentary films have been supported by the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC); The Royal Jordanian Film Commission; and Creative Interruptions, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). She was a resident at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France.
She is currently pursuing practice-based research in film. She is funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK. Her project interprets and creates representations of Palestinian women pre-1948 Palestine through film in resonance to present feminist struggles for liberation.