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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 April 2, 2025 at 7pm for a screening of Life Is Beautiful by Mohammed Jabaly.

TICKETS

APRIL FILM: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL BY MOHAMED JABALY

In 2014, while a young Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly was visiting a film festival in Tromsø, Norway, Israel launched a war on Gaza and the borders to his home were closed. It will be seven years before he can return home and see his family again. While waiting for the situation to change, Jabaly and friends begin documenting the process of applying for asylum. Facing many challenges, Mohamed stays connected with family in Gaza. They provide solace, but when Gaza is attacked again, Mohamed is faced with an impossible choice: if he goes back to Gaza, he may never be able to leave again and continue his work as a filmmaker. Told by a director who uses his creativity to connect with the world and forge a way forward,

Life is Beautiful is a story of overcoming a life put on hold by international politics and rigid bureaucracy.

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.