WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH
FILM SCREENING: PALESTINE BLUES
Followed by Q&A with filmmaker NIDA SINNOKROT
7:30 p.m.
Alwan For the Arts
16 Beaver St – 4th Floor
New York, NY
$10 donation goes to United Health Workers Committees in Palestine, on the brink of collapse…
Join Awda NY for a screening of “Palestine Blues” plus discussion with the filmmaker – renowned Palestinian artist & sculpturist Nida Sinnokrot.
Nida Sinnokrot describes his film as follows:
“In June of 2002 the construction of a 400-mile barrier began in the Occupied West Bank. Though it is referred to as a ‘security fence’ by Israel, its form changes along the route, and near large cities it is a concrete wall twice as high as the Berlin Wall. Construction began in the northwest part of the West Bank. With its large, unspoiled aquifer, this land provides nearly 65% of the fruits and vegetables produced in the region. The wells along the aquifer provide essential water for drinking, agriculture and sanitation. All of this prime land and its water supply will fall on the Israeli side of the wall.”Palestine Blues follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Instead of focusing on the Wall as an object, Palestine Blues examines the grassroots resistance movement that has sprung up against it. Palestine Blues is not a ‘traditional’ political reportage but rather an interminable road trip across hard and liquid borders, across a terrain that is being erased as it is being traversed.”
