Special Screening: Lyd
The Main Cinema
115 SE Main Street
Minneapolis, MN 55414- 07/31/2024
- 7pm
Event details
Next week, Mizna is proud to present a screening of Lyd (dir. by Rami Younis, Sarah Ema Friedland), a speculative documentary on Palestine and the 1948 Nakba, in collaboration with MSP Film Society. This is a one night screening only!
What: Screening of the speculative documentary Lyd
When: July 31, 2024 at 7pm
Where: The Main Cinema
Use discount code MIZNALYD to get the $8 partner admission
ABOUT THE FILM
The film Lyd (the Arabic name of Lod, a city now in Israel) is about a 5,000-year-old bustling Palestinian town that was conquered when the State of Israel was established in 1948, and the film Lyd is the story of that city’s rise and fall. An exploration of what it once was, and what it is now, in the context of the continuing war in Gaza, Lyd’s excavation of one community’s complex history offers us not only lessons but possible futures.
As the film unfolds, a chorus of characters creates a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city and the trauma left by the massacre and expulsion, while vivid animations envision an alternate reality where the same characters live free from the trauma of the past and the violence of the present. Using never-before-seen archival footage of the Israeli soldiers who carried out the Lyd massacre and expulsion, the personified city explains that these events were so devastating that they fractured reality, and now there are two Lyds — one occupied and one free. As the film cuts between fantastical and documentary realities, it ultimately leaves the viewer questioning what future should prevail.