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Madafeh: Our guest is Monica Maurer, film maker, film festival jurist, and Palestine cinema archivist/historian.

  • Palestine Museum US 1764 Litchfield Turnpike, Suite 200 Woodbridge, CT, 06525 United States (map)

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The program begins at 12:00 PM US EST; 18:00 Europe; 19:00 Palestine; 17:00 UK.

Photo credit: La Presse de Tunisie
Monica Maurer

German journalist and director, Monica Maurer moved to Beirut in 1977 and became involved in the Palestinian resistance by producing, with the Palestinian Cinema Unit within the PLO, a series of documentaries on the daily lives of Palestinians including “Children of Palestine” (1979), “The Fifth War” (1980) with Vanessa Redegrave, “Born of Death” (1981), “Why?” (1982) and “Palestine in Flames (1988). Today, she devotes her time to preserving the film and photographic archives of Palestine. - La Presse de Tunisie