Palestine Cinema Days

November 1, 6-8pm
J. A. de Sève Cinema (1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve O)

Free film screening! Register here.

Since 2014, Days of Cinema has been Palestine’s leading international film festival, bringing Palestinian and international cinema to audiences across Palestine each year from late October to early November. Since 2023, however, the festival has been unable to take place in its traditional format. In response, Palestine Cinema Days Around the World was created. The initiative invites cultural practitioners, filmmakers, artists, and organizations around the world to organize screenings of curated films for their local audiences—as an act of cultural solidarity and a way of ensuring that Palestinian cinema continues to circulate, connect communities, and be experienced collectively.

The Dream
Mohammad Malas | Documentary | 45 min
A collection of interviews with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon during the civil war, interviewed by Malas about what dreams they saw when they went to sleep.

They Do Not Exist
Mustafa Abu Ali | Documentary / War | 25 min
Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director covers conditions in Lebanon’s refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps.

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Theo Panagopoulos | Documentary | 17 min
When a filmmaker of Palestinian descent based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage

Accessibility:

The J. A. de Sève Cinema is wheelchair accessible; there is room at the back of the screening room with space for four wheelchair users.