Spotlight: What happened to the Palestinian Cinema Institute?

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Presenter: Rania Dawud

Delivered: Amman on January 7, 2024

In the presentation, Rania sheds light on the beginning of Palestinian cinema. She talks about the third cinema movement that aimed to raise awareness and expose the struggles of marginalized people living under oppression.

Sources & Future References

• The Evolution of Palestinian Cinema in Five Decades

• On What Was, and What Remains: Palestinian Cinema and the Film Archive by Hend Alawadhi 

• The Search for Stolen Palestinian Films

• Seized in Beirut: The Plundered Archives of the Palestinian Cinema Institution and Cultural Arts Section by Rona Sela

• “The Missing Archives” by Kerning Cultures Podcast

• How Israel erases Palestinian cultural memory

• Mending the hole in collective memory

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