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Insurgent Transmissions: A Palestine Film Series returns with monthly screenings in 2025. Starting again in February, screenings take place on the first Wednesday of each month at Bryant Lake Bowl.

Join us on February 5, 2025 at 7pm for our first screening of the year, featuring Chronicle of a Disappearance by Elia Suleiman and Ma’loul Celebrates Its Destruction by Michel Khleifi.

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FEBRUARY FILM: CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE BY ELIA SULEIMAN

After living in New York for many years, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman returns home. Using his position as half-insider, half-outsider, he analyzes the extent to which the Palestinian population living under Israeli occupation is losing its national identity. In a witty, ironic mix of narrative, documentary, and autobiography, we meet the urban Palestinian middle class: a retired man who plays computer games while smoking a shisha, two bored men filling bottles of “holy water” from the tap, and a young woman looking for an apartment. All the while, Israeli police cars absurdly zoom around looking for terrorists. Elia Suleiman is at the same time director and protagonist, character and viewer, mediator and narrator— like the film itself, he moves between documentary, fiction, past memories and the present.

Screening with MA’LOUL CELEBRATES ITS DESTRUCTION BY MICHEL KHLEIFI

This short documentary depicts the residents of Ma’loul, a Palestinian village in Galilee, which was destroyed by the Israeli armed forces in 1948. All that remains of the village are two churches and a mosque, the last visible traces for travellers between Haifa and Nazareth. Each year, the Palestinians gather to commemorate their lost city.

ABOUT INSURGENT TRANSMISSIONS

Insurgent Transmissions is a film series highlighting the varied Palestinian experience. Made by contemporary Palestinian makers, the films depict the many ways that Palestinians resist occupation in their daily lives and filmmaking practices. Beginning with Annemarie Jacir’s touching family drama, Wajib, the programming will unfold as a series of transmissions: Jacir chooses the second film, and each subsequent filmmaker will select the next film in the series. The films in Insurgent Transmissions highlight the works of contemporary Palestinian filmmakers, amplifying their voices through their films and the films they see as most urgent in this moment of cultural erasure and genocide.

This monthly series is presented by Mizna monthly at Bryant Lake Bowl. Ticket fees go towards supporting the featured Palestinian filmmakers. Online tickets are $10, tickets at the door are sliding scale $5–15. Additional opportunities to support urgent grassroots fundraisers in Gaza will be available at the screening.

ACCESSIBILITY: To make these events accessible, masks are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Unfortunately we cannot require masks because Bryant Lake Bowl serves food and drinks inside the screening space. Films will be in Arabic with English subtitles.