EDITED
OF GAZA TO JNINE…
Twelve months that a deluge of bombs falls daily on Gaza, that Gazans are deported, killed, starved, that hospitals, schools, houses, museums , are 80% destroyed.
Twelve months that, despite calls for a ceasefire being heard throughout the world, Western governments, including Switzerland, remain silent, complicit in the genocide.
In the West Bank, settlers and the army attack towns, villages and refugee camps, burning, destroying, deporting and killing.
In Gaza, the West Bank and on Israeli territory, thousands of people are kidnapped, tortured, raped in Israeli prisons.
Ethnic cleansing advances. Palestine is ravaged from the sea to the Jordan.
The Palestinian people are resisting.
What can cinema do? ?
PFC‘E chose that Gaza and its inhabitants are present at each screening, thanks to 22 short films filmed since November 2023, brought together in the From Ground Zero project.
PFC‘E also chose to focus the cameras on the Jenin refugee campwhich stands firm in the face of Israeli military relentlessness to crush the heart of Palestinian resistance. With a close-up of the Freedom Theater and its “ resistance through art », and on the return of Mohamed Bakri to Jenin, finding witnesses to the massacres in 2002.
Child of the camp and today actor and artistic director of the Freedom Theater, Ahmed Tobasi will be present to add his testimony to the images.
Every day for 76 years, colonization, occupation. PFC‘E persists in making known young directors who continue to question their society and address themes as essential as Israeli blackmail into collaboration, the drying up of the Dead Sea, the theft of archaeological heritage, the painful presence of the absent ·e·s, the work of photojournalists,… and the dreams of the sea that Palestinians have.
Some of these filmmakers were trained in the Faculty of Cinema Dar Al-Kalima in Bethlehem. We talk about it with three of them and students from the HEAD-movie theater.
For its opening night, PFC‘E is very happy to welcome Yvann Yagchi, Swiss-Palestinian director, with his 1is feature film, a grueling journey towards a childhood friend from Geneva who became a settler on Palestinian land, where he has no right to live.
This year, PFC‘E offered to host an evening for a young collective, Change for Palestine.
Meetings between audiences and filmmakers are still just as important for PFC‘E. We are happy to welcome to Geneva for this 13e edition, Yvann Yagchi, Dima Hamdan, Saif Hammash, Hayat Laban, Majdi El-Omari and in the video conference, Rashid Masharawi and Serene Husni. And our forever accomplice, Nicolas Wadimoffproducer.
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