2024-01-17 15:25:00
the essentials The Ciné-Palestine Toulouse Occitanie festival returns from March 4 to 12 for an exceptional tenth edition in 14 theaters and 10 towns in Haute-Garonne.
Ten years already of a crazy bet launched in 2014 and a bet won, year following year! The Cinémathèque de Toulouse and Ciné-Palestine Toulouse Occitanie will celebrate the tenth edition of the Toulouse film festival from March 4 to 12. With three programs of Palestinian activist films made between 1960 and 1980 and a round table to better understand and decipher them. In the presence of Khadijeh Habashneh and Leïla Shahid, former Palestinian ambassador to Europe. An anniversary edition which is an opportunity to measure the progress made since 2014 and the first edition, in France, of an event of this kind. Since then, numerous festivals dedicated to Palestinian cinema have flourished throughout France. “This edition takes place at a time when the tragedy of history is once once more bloodying Palestine and our thoughts go to Gaza and its martyred people and to the Palestinian people as a whole,” underlines the cultural association La Compagnie Ici, À Bas et Ailleurs, which organizes the event. More than ever this year, Ciné-Palestine will bear witness to the richness of a recognized or emerging cinema, a cinema capable of crossing borders and committed to building “the story of a people faced with trials but more than ever standing, to who art and culture are the best weapons of resistance.”
A heritage treasure
During these nine days, in Toulouse and the region, Ciné-Palestine will offer numerous meetings, screenings followed by debates with numerous guests, initiatives in schools, a photo exhibition at the ABC entitled “Childhood in Gaza – before and Now”, a concert in support of Toulouse artists with Palestine, a contemporary dance workshop, as well as readings of literary works and extracts from the collection Songs of the Streets by the poet Samih al-Qassem. Spectators will also be able to discover films produced in the 1960s and 1970s by the PLO Cinema Department, which testify to “the urgency of bringing into existence a people faced with the denial of their own existence.” A heritage treasure saved by work from the Toulouse Cinematheque, Archives en Exile. The festival will finally share with us the daily life of Palestinians in Israel, a component that is still too little known among the Palestinian people, and will offer a focus on Lebanon, the country invited for these 9 days of meetings under the sign of the poet Samih al Kassem: “But tell him also that the force which pushes life to emerge from the seed sown is harder than the rock, tell him that our roots plunge deep into the heart of this earth.”
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