TIFF Lightbox 350 King St W, Toronto, Cinema 2
R21 aka Restoring Solidarity
88 minutes
Mohanad Yaqubi
Experimental Documentary
2022
Palestine, Belgium, Qatar
Documenting an overlooked movement of anti-imperialism between Japan and Palestine, the Tokyo Reels are collection of 20 16mm films. They were safeguarded in Tokyo by the Japanese solidarity movement with Palestine between the 1960s and 1980s. Into this stunning archive comes a reflection on the movement, known as Reel 21 – an undelivered solidarity letter written by a Japanese activist that was lost on its way to a Palestinian filmmaker. Fragments of the letter are found throughout the collection and compiled into an imagined structure that reveals itself during this powerful, meditative film.
Toronto Premiere
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