TPFF is inspired by the outpouring of support the Palestinian community have received over the past weeks. We’re grateful for all of your messages, posts and commitments to be in solidarity with us. It has made a difficult period also feel hopeful.
TPFF is inviting Canadian arts and allied organizations to join us in co-hosting a live free online screening of the documentary film Naila and the Uprising by Julia Bacha. The screening will be followed by a short discussion about solidarity with Palestinian artists.
DONATIONS
Attendees are welcome to make a donation to a new art school in Gaza, Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts & Culture - Gaza Training Center.
When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time.
Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh whose story weaves through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history – the First Intifada in the late 1980s. Using evocative animation, intimate interviews, and exclusive archival footage, this film brings out of anonymity the courageous women activists who have remained on the margins of history...until now.
This film tells the story that history overlooked – of an unbending, nonviolent women’s movement at the head of Palestine’s struggle for freedom.
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