Screening for Gaza: When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir
Public Functionary, Northrup King #247, 1500 Jackson Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
- 12/30/2023
- 6pm
Event details
As part of programming associated with the installation Bear Witness: Honoring Gaza’s Martyrs, join us for a screening of When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir.
When: December 30, 2023 at 6pm
Where: Public Functionary, Northrup King #247, 1500 Jackson Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Accessibility: The gallery is ADA accessible. The film is in Arabic and with English subtitles.
Bear Witness: Honoring Gaza’s Martyrs and its programs are presented by Mizna, UMN Students for Justice in Palestine, UMN Palestine Studies Working Group (soon to become Faculty for Justice in Palestine), and Public Functionary and supported by the Headwaters Foundation.
This installation is on view through December 31, 2023
Find more events and resources for Gaza at our page, Toward a Free Palestine.
About the film
Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in “temporary” refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses until they would be able to return, they wait, like the generation before them who arrived in 1948. With difficulties adjusting to life in Harir camp and a longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek searches a way out, and discovers a new hope emerging with the times. Eventually his free spirit and curious nature lead him to a group of people on a journey that will change their lives.
When I Saw You is the story of people affected by the times around them, in search of something more in their lives. A journey full of adventure, love, humor, and the desire to be free, but most of all this is a story about that moment in a person’s life when he wakes up and finds the whole world is open and everything is possible – that moment you feel most alive. It is a journey of the human spirit that knows no borders.
About the filmmaker
After presenting her 2003 short film Like Twenty Impossibles at Cannes under the aegis of the Cinéfondation, Annemarie Jacir’s feature debut Salt of this Sea premiered in Un Certain Regard 2008. One of the leading filmmakers from the Arab world, she has written, directed and produced over sixteen films. Her three features to date were selected as Palestine’s entry for the Oscars. With a commitment to teaching, training and hiring locally, Annemarie Jacir also curates, actively promoting independent cinema in the region. Founder of Philistine Films, a production house with offices in Palestine and Jordan, she collaborates regularly with fellow filmmakers. She teaches screenwriting and works as a freelance editor and consultant. Her most recent film Wajib (2017) won 18 international awards including Best Film in Mar Del Plata, Dubai, Amiens, and Kerala.