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Film: “Palestine through Jocelyne Saab” retrospective
November 07, 20257:30 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
7:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
Films shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish. Colloquium in Spanish.
As part of the Palestinian Film Festival, on November 7 we will be screening a retrospective of director Jocelyne Saab’s films in Cordoba, featuring three of her most representative films. This will be followed by a colloquium moderated by Julia C. De la Fuente. Come and take part.
The films to be screened are as follows:
Les Femmes Palestiniennes (Palestinian Women, Jocelyne Saab, 1973. 16 minutes)
In 1973, Jocelyne Saab directed this piece for Palestinian television. She was particularly interested in showing female combatants, often forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At that time, there were very few existing images of them, which particularly motivated Saab, but not so much the head of the editorial department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who, in the words of the filmmaker herself, grabbed her by the neck and threw her out of the editing room. Thus, Palestinian Women was left unfinished and was never shown on
television.
Le Bateau de l’Exil (The Boat of Exile, Jocelyne Saab, 1982. 13’15”)
After living in hiding in Beirut to escape the Israelis, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, left Lebanon for a new place of exile, first Greece and then Tunisia, aboard the ocean liner Atlantis. Arafat speaks about his fate and the
PLO’s future
Le Front du Refus (The Refusal Front, Jocelyne Saab, 1975. 16’26”)
In the 1970s, as part of the Palestinian resistance against the State of Israel, a series of commando groups emerged, made up of teenagers between the ages of 12 and 20, who gave their lives to the cause. Faced with such heartbreaking images, Saab chooses not to show violence with sensationalist images, but rather dis so by using a destroyed image.
Les Femmes Palestiniennes (Palestinian Women, Jocelyne Saab, 1973. 16 minutes)
In 1973, Jocelyne Saab directed this piece for Palestinian television. She was particularly interested in showing female combatants, often forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At that time, there were very few existing images of them, which particularly motivated Saab, but not so much the head of the editorial department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who, in the words of the filmmaker herself, grabbed her by the neck and threw her out of the editing room. Thus, Palestinian Women was left unfinished and was never shown on
television.
Le Bateau de l’Exil (The Boat of Exile, Jocelyne Saab, 1982. 13’15”)
After living in hiding in Beirut to escape the Israelis, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, left Lebanon for a new place of exile, first Greece and then Tunisia, aboard the ocean liner Atlantis. Arafat speaks about his fate and the
PLO’s future
Le Front du Refus (The Refusal Front, Jocelyne Saab, 1975. 16’26”)
In the 1970s, as part of the Palestinian resistance against the State of Israel, a series of commando groups emerged, made up of teenagers between the ages of 12 and 20, who gave their lives to the cause. Faced with such heartbreaking images, Saab chooses not to show violence with sensationalist images, but rather dis so by using a destroyed image.
Filmmaker Jocelyne Saab