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Filmscreening: "The Sons of Eilaboun" and "The Presence of Absence in the Ruins of Kafr Bir'im" |
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Written by sara
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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Tuesday
15th of July, 8 pm
Filmscreening: The Sons of Eilaboun -
by Hisham Zreiq
The Presence
of Absence in the Ruins of Kafr Bir'im - by John Halaka
Tuesday's AICafe focusses on the stories of the victims of two villages
in the Galilee which were destroyed during the Nakba.
The Sons of Eilaboun is a
documentary film about the massacre, expulsion and return of a small Palestinian
village in the Galilee. In the film the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe introduces
the history behind the Nakba events. Then the
Eilaboun people tell their story of suffering.
Shot on location amid Kafr
Bir’im’s ruins and cemetery, located in Northern Galilee, Halaka interviews
Ibrahim Essa, an elder Palestinian man and poet, who survived Al-Nakba. Halaka
focuses on the stone ruins of houses, wild grass, flowers, shrubs, and bushes
that sway in the wind. When he confesses that the stone ruins and the trees
spoke to him, his footage brings this feeling home.
The AIC is a joint Plaestinian-Israeli activist organization
engaged in dissemination of information, political advocacy and grassroots
activism.
The AICafe is a political and cultural café open on Tuesday and
Saturday night from 7pm untill 11pm. It is located in the Alternative
Information Center in Beit Sahour, close to Suq a Shaab square (follow the sign
to Jadal Center) We have a small library with novels, political books and
magazines. We also sell a number of Films in DVD copies and the AIC publications
which are aimed to critically analyze both the Palestinian and Israeli sociaties
as well as the conflict itself.
Phone number; 02
2775444
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AICafe 
