TIFF Lightbox 350 King St W, Toronto, Cinema 2

Shattered Memory

14 minutes
Hayat Laban
Documentary
2023
Palestine

SCREENING WITH: R21 aka Restoring Solidarity

English
The documentary talks about the memory of photojournalist “Mahfouz Abu Turk” and the archive through which he documented the events he experienced in the city of Jerusalem and the West Bank from the first intifada in 1987 and the events that followed until the end of the nineties.

Canadian Premiere

Learn More: Shattered Memory

TIFF Lightbox 350 King St W, Toronto, Cinema 2

R21 aka Restoring Solidarity

88 minutes
Mohanad Yaqubi
Experimental Documentary
2022
Palestine, Belgium, Qatar

SCREENING WITH: Shattered Memory

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

Learn More: R21 aka Restoring Solidarity

Co-Presented by:

Art Metropole

Re:assemblage

Pleasure Dome

Regards palestiniens 

Images Festival

Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

Petra Restaurant 1100 Burnhamthorpe Rd W, Mississauga

TPFF SAHTAIN! BRUNCH

Sahtain! Take a culinary trip through Palestine's traditional breakfast cuisine and enjoy a wide array of delicious dishes with our very welcoming TPFF community. Join us on Sunday, September 29 11:00 am for our always popular Sahtain! Brunch at Petra Restaurant. Worth the trip to Mississauga! Tickets are expected to sell fast! Get your tickets as soon as possible to guarantee admission. Vegetarian friendly. Sahtain! Brunch is generously sponsored by Petra Restaurant!

We are pleased to have Palestinian musician and oud player Mariam Shakaa join us for a special oud performance at the brunch.  Mariam is an emerging talent who recently arrived to Toronto from Nablus to continue her studies at the University of Toronto. She has won several awards for her music including the second place in the Palestine Youth Competition of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in 2021; and the winner of the Marcel Khalifa Prize in the International Oud Competition in Lebanon 2022.  Follow her at @shakaa_mariam