Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
something that really stuck with me watching this is the endless cycle of building and destroying. palestinians build, then israel destroys literally everything. destroying homes. schools. playgrounds. even toilets. everything. all for one explicitly stated reason: ethnic cleansing. but no matter how many times they destroy, palestinians rebuild.
i believe that one day, they’ll rebuild for the last time. because then, Palestine will be free. because no matter how “powerful” an oppressor thinks they are, they can’t erase the indigenous. someday. someday. someday, and hopefully, the time is near.
aida's journey in this film captures the power of memory as resistance. even after decades, she remembers the tiniest details of jaffa — where the ice cream shop stood, the gardens, the streets, the homes. so while they try to erase palestine from maps and reconstruct history, they cant, because these memories persist. every memory, every detail remembered, keeps palestine alive.
free lebanon!
dancing on the edge of a volcano is a raw documentary capturing the sheer struggle of lebanese filmmakers creating art amidst absolute chaos. from pre-production to post, they’re constantly up against the impossible: explosions, unsafe conditions, financial crises, delays from the pandemic, power outages in the middle of rendering, and more.
watching it felt like i was right there, living their turmoil, laughing along with their humor, crying for their despair, and feeling their anger. early on, there’s…