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Film and colloquium: “Stitching Palestine”
December 14, 20238:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62) and Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel.
8:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
On Thursday, December 14, we will be screening this documentary film and holding a talk with its director, Carol Mansour, to accompany the activities which Casa Árabe is dedicating to Palestinian embroidery or “tatreez.”
“Stitching Palestine,” by Carol Mansour (Lebanon, 2017, 1 hr. 18 min). Documentary
Twelve Palestinian women sit before us and tell us about their lives before the diaspora, including their memories, lives and identity. Their stories are connected by the long-lasting thread in the ancient art of embroidery. Twelve resilient, determined and eloquent women from different professions and social statuses: women lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects and politicians, sew the story of their homeland, their dispossession and their unwavering determination to see justice prevail. Through their stories, individuals are woven in with the collective while remaining distinctly personal. Twelve women, twelve lives and stories from Palestine; a land whose position was fixed onto the map of the world but is now embroidered on its face.
Film preview:
Twelve Palestinian women sit before us and tell us about their lives before the diaspora, including their memories, lives and identity. Their stories are connected by the long-lasting thread in the ancient art of embroidery. Twelve resilient, determined and eloquent women from different professions and social statuses: women lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects and politicians, sew the story of their homeland, their dispossession and their unwavering determination to see justice prevail. Through their stories, individuals are woven in with the collective while remaining distinctly personal. Twelve women, twelve lives and stories from Palestine; a land whose position was fixed onto the map of the world but is now embroidered on its face.
Film preview: