ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS Paris
November 13-14 / December 9-10
BLACKBOARD - Palazzo della Libertà Bergamo
15th November
LA VACHE BLEUE Paris
December 2
JOIN THE DOTS Sidney
December (date to be confirmed)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM Chicago
April 2026
Further venues will be announced
“We've finished the death phase, and now we're in the non-life phase.” Rami Abu Jamous, Gazan journalist
Today, space is being dominated by deadly dogmas whose spread seems unstoppable;
approved and fuelled by genocidal states and the economic support of international
accomplices who murder both people and their memories, leaving the field open
to confusion and betrayal of memory.
In November 2023, poet and teacher Refaat Alareer, targeted like so many others
by Israeli strikes along with seven members of his family, publishes his last poem:
If I Must Die. Refaat Alareer requests of us, that we « must live » to create a kite
- a long-standing object of resistance - with “a piece of cloth and some strings”.
Each of its readers, receives this poem as an inheritance, each bits of string
becomes a stance against silences and impartiality.
Launched in March 2024, amid the intolerable silence of the world, Some Strings
has sincebeen shown in over 50 countries, not without struggle, but supported
by the efforts of numerous partners. All of the films were made without conditions
by more than 100 artists and filmmakers from different geographical, artistic,
and social backgrounds: “so that trauma does not lose its social power to create
bonds that do not yet exist, communities without limits or borders.”
These films don't stop the disappearance of others, brutal killings, they don't
alleviate hunger, they don't heal the wounded, they don't feed children,
but they do help to redefine understanding. It is by shifting one's gaze that one's
thoughts move.
“We must remember that genocide occurs whenever we deny the organic link
of populations to genos, to what we have in common” Vladimir Safatle.
Some Strings is over 7 hours of movies, shown in theaters, at festivals,
in the streets, and in camps, either as a pre-show or continuously.
It can be adapted to all kinds of spaces. This initiative is still growing.
KHRISTINE GILLARD & MOHHAMD HAMMASH & FILIP MOMIKJ extractquam sem tempor eu. Pellentesque sem tortor,
CONTACT : contact@some-strings.org
alain gomis, alain kassanda, alexia roux & saad chakali,
ali arkady, ali cherri, alice brygo, amel alzakout,
amie barouh, anhar salem, anne penders, annik leroy
& julie morel, apichatpong weerasethakul, aude fourel,
axelle poisson, bahia bencheikh el fegoun,
basma al-sharif, baya medhaffar, ben rivers,
ben russell, bani khoshnoudi, bruce clarke,
charlie shackleton, christophe clavert, claire fontaine,
carolina adriazola & josé luis sepúlveda,
collectif hawaf, corinne castel, dalila mahdjoub,
dania reymond, daniela ortiz, declan clarke,
djamel kerkar, diego mondaca, douglas gordon,
dora garcía, éléonore weber, ellie ga, eric baudelaire
& claire atherton & marius atherton, eva giolo,
eyal sivan, fernanda pessoa, francis alÿs,
franssou prenant, génesis scarlet valdez,
ghassan salhab, hassen ferhani, idit nathan,
ignacio agüero, ismaïl bahri, jayce salloum,
jeremiah mosese, jerôme colin, jerónimo atehortúa,
jilani saadi, julie courel, juruna mallon, kamal aljafari,
khaled abdulwahed, kiswendsida parfait kaboré,
khristine gillard & mohammad hammash &
filip momikj, kyoshi sugita, laura huertas millán,
lav diaz, léandre bernard brunel, lene berg, leos carax,
lucie kerr, m’hand abadou djezairi & marcel mrejen,
mali arun, maria aparicio, marielle chabal,
marwa arsanios, maryam tafakory, michaël andrianaly,
mira adoumier, misha zavalniy, mitra farahani,
mohamed bourouissa, mohanad yaqubi,
monica maurer, muriel modr, nadia ghanem,
narimane mari, niles atallah, newton ifeanyi aduaka,
onyeka igwe, pablo sigg, philip rizk, philippe parreno,
pierre creton, primo mauridi, raman djafari,
renée nader messora & joão salaviza, saif fradj &
mahshid mahboubifar, safia benhaim,
samir guesmi, sarah beddington, sarah wood,
sepideh farsi, serge garcia, sharon lockhart,
silvia maglioni & graeme thomson,
simplice herman ganou, soumeya ait ahmed &
nadir bouhmouch, suneil sanzgiri, sylvestre meinzer,
tariq teguia, taysir batniji, ugo rodinone,
valentin noujaïm, valérie massadian, valérie osouf &
cromix onana, victor missud, vincent guilbert,
virgil vernier, wendelien van oldenborgh &
cathleen schuster & marcel dickhage (titre provisoire),
wiame haddad, wilmarc val, yann gonzales &
alain garcia vergara, yannick kergoat,
yohei yamakado, yosr gasmi & mauro mazzocchi,
youssef chebbi (more strings to come)
UPCOMING SCHEDULES
SCREENINGS CONTINUING
SINCE JUNE 2024
ZUMZEIG Barcelone / from july 12 2024
(all single films in pre-program)
CINEMA SPOUTNIK Geneva
ongoing (pre-program - no date limit)
LA COMPAGNIE Marseille / Special programs
CINEMA GALERIES Bruxelles / Special programs
LES ATELIERS SAUVAGES Alger / Special programs
Dreams of the Tent – Neama Hassan
When you ask me about my fear,
I talk about the death of the coffee vendor
And my skirt that became a roof of a tent.
I talk about my cat that I left in the gutted city,
And now it meows on repeat in my head.
I want a large cloud that cannot rain,
And an aeroplane that throws candy,
And coloured walls where I can draw
A child with open arms,
Smiling.
These are the dreams of my tent.
I love you,
I have enough courage
To climb a building that no longer exists,
And leap into your arms.
Then confess that I am well.
Please, ask me about my fear again!
FUNDRAISING to welcome Neama Hassan
https://www.helloasso.com/associations/editions-des-lisieres/collectes/ensemble-soutenons-neama-hassan-ecrivaine-gazaouie-en-danger
Originally from Rafah, where she lived with her family until they were forcibly displaced in October 2023, she now survives under a tent with her children, after a dozen displacements.
We have only our eyes,
a frame, and the light to say
what others erase.
Primo Mauridi
EVA GIOLO extract CINEMA GALERIES Bruxelles
SAIF FRADJ & MAHSHID MAHBOUBIFAR extract
PAST PROJECTIONS
FILMCHIEF BFMAF UK
17-26 October
FIC VALDIVIA
October 13–19
FOUDACION FOR PEACE OF CATALUNYA Barcelona
and DIEM25 MOVEMENT September 25th
L'ONADA - Cineclub de Canet de Mar September 26th
GAZA INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL FOR WOMEN'S CINEMA
Gaza
in cooperation with PARCO NEMORENSE
Roma September 12th
FeKK
Ljubljana August 18 to 23
FESTA DEL CINEMA IN LIBERTÀ Ex-Postmoderno
Bari July 19
GALERIE IN VIA CLUVERIO.OFFICINA
Palermo July 2
FID MARSEILLE
Marseille July 8 to 13
GUERRE A LA GUERRE
Bobigny June 20 to 22
DECOLONIAL FILM FESTIVAL La Cité fertile
Pantin June 14
FESTIVAL CINE-PALESTINE
Marseille May 22-25
FESTIVAL JEAN ROUCH
Paris Musée du quai Branly May 15
CAREOF
Milan May 15th
VORTICE FESTIVAL DE CINE
Bogotá / Medellín / Barrancabermeja
VIDEODROME 2
Marseille April 25
PRISMATIC GROUND Anthology Film Archive
New York April 30-May 4
BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
Berwick March 27-30 2025 St Aidan's Peace Church
CYPRUS FILM DAYS International Festival
Limassol, Cyprus March 26th /April 2nd
PREMIERE LIGNE FESTIVAL
Saint-Médard-en-Jalles March 14-16
ECOLE SUPERIEURE D'ART
D'AIX-EN-PROVENCE
March 17-18 / For decolonial futures
by Paul-Emmanuel Odin
ON STRIKE BERLINALE
Berlin February 13–23
OVER THE WALL BEYOND THE SEA
Athens February 26
OJO AL CINE FESTIVAL
Bogota and several Colombian cities
January/February 2025
CINEMA L'ECRAN /
RENDEZ-VOUS DE DSGE
Saint Denis jan. 11
"Building Otherness"
Paris seminar by Amanda Dias
LIMESTONE BOOKS
Maastricht all december 2024
BOGOSHORTS
Bogota december 5/6/9/10
DANCING ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL
Amsterdam nov. 23 to dec. 7
TOKYO FILMeX
Tokyo december 2
OYA
Berlin november 28/29
ENTREVUES
Belfort november 18 to 24
FESTIVAL DU MONDE ARABE
Montreal november 6-10 & 18
FESTIVAL DES 3 CONTINENTS
Nantes (we had to cancel the screening)
DOCUMENTAIRE SUR GRAND ECRAN
Saint Denis
ASSOCIATION CINEMA BRAQUAGE
Paris October 30
DOCLISBOA
Lisbon Opening Culturgest October 19th
CASA DE COMUN
Lisbon october 23rd to 25th (Doclisboa)
LE CINÉMATOGRAPHE
Lausane october 24
FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA
Montreal october 9 to 20 Cinémathèque)
CINEMAS DIFFERENTS
et EXPERIMENTAUX
Paris october 13 to 20
JAOU TUNIS contemporary art festival
(we had to cancel the screening)
CANCELED AGAIN // UNDERDOX
Munich october 14 at 19h
Werkstattkino CANCELED AGAIN
FIFIB - Festival International
du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux
October 9
DMZ DOCS
Gyeonggi-do, Korea
september 26 to october 02 (exhibition)
REVUE LIBERTÉ
Montréal october 2
Librairie N’était-ce pas l’été
ARTCITE
Montréal september 28
RCB - Rencontres cinématographiques
de Bejaia september 24 to 29
MASAHAT FESTIVAL
Oslo september 22
CINEMA BIO in collaboration
with the FIFDH festival
Carouge / september 19
RAUMERWERWEITERUNGSHALLE
Berlin 2 september
WERKSTATT KINO
Munich mid-July / Cancelled
LE 18
Marrackech july 27
LAGO FILM FEST
Lago july 27 to 29
CINEMADART
Tunis july 19
ZUMZEIG
Barcelone from july 12
LA PARCHEMINERIE
Festival Obskura Rennes july 4 to 6
FESTIVAL OBSKURA 04
Rennes july 3 to 7
CAMP AL-SUMUD
Montréal Pro-Palestinian encampment
Dismantling by the authorities
TY FILMS
Mellionnec june 27 to 30
LES ATELIERS SAUVAGES
Alger from june 25 (exhibition)
CINEMA GALERIES
Bruxelles from june 26
(exhibition of all films pre-programmed in the theater)
FID Marseille
Marseille june 25 to 30
LA COMPAGNIE
Marseille june 25 to 30 (exhibition)
SURVIVING THE DISASTER We won't succeed separately
There is an urgent need to raise awareness and collectively increase public debate around possible and exciting non-growth-based visions of the world, which would enable the emergence of alternative structures and spaces to the different forms of exploitation that are currently on the rise.
With a pluralistic and diverse perspective, without forgetting the immense debt that the North owes to the South for the damage caused. Aware of the role played by certain social classes and lifestyles in contributing to the problem. In short, it is a matter of moving away as urgently as possible from the dominant narrative, which is leading us toward collapse.
It is also time to remember that mutual aid is an old friend of humanity, one of its most beautiful expressions. It has always been the mainstay that has enabled us to overcome all the crises we have faced throughout history. Now, as then, it will be key to facing the challenge ahead.
Surviving the Disaster was originally conceived by Stéphane Bernatas Chassaigne and Javier Rueda Solves.
RADIO FIREFLY FREQUENCIES Silvia Maglioni, Nikolay Oleynikov, Alessandra Pomarico, Graeme Thomson
Born in 2020, Firefly Frequencies is a radio platform that brings together artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists and other collaborators from many different countries. For us radio is first and foremost a place of gathering where many voices can meet, mix, transform. A membrane, a communal body that perpetually reinvents itself through different modalities and temporalities, through the dimensions of creation and care and the shared powers of reception and receptivity.
PALESTINE FILM INDEX has now reached 400 films, 41 texts, 4 audio sources & is still growing daily. The index starts with films from the revolutionary period (68 - 82) made by the militant filmmakers of the Palestine Film Unit and their allies and extends through a multitude of voices to the present day.
FREE PALESTINE Bimonthly newsletter published by Friends of Free Palestine, Washington, DC throughout the 70s. Now on internet archive
LES ATELIERS SAUVAGES Algier
LAGO FILM FEST Lago
YOUCEF CHEBBI
We have a role to play October 28, 2024 | More than 1,000 authors, including winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award have launched a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This is the largest cultural boycott against Israeli institutions in history.
The Guardian Institutions that have never publicly recognised the “inalienable rights of the Palestinian people as enshrined in international law” will also be boycotted. FULL LIST OF SIGNATORIES You can add your name.
DMZ DOCS Gyeonggi-do, Korea/ september 26 to october 02 (exhibition 6 programs)
CINEMADART Tunis
DOCLISBOA Paula Astorga Riestra Directora Doclisboa & Serge Garcia
RAUMERWERWEITERUNGSHALLE Berlin / 2 september (full program)
CINEMA GALERIES Bruxelles
REVUE LIBERTÉ Montréal / october 2
RAUMERWERWEITERUNGSHALLE Berlin // philip rizk //
The Hind Rajab Foundation is a branch of the March 30 Movement mainly dedicated to the quest for justice in response to the crimes against humanity, war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated by the Israeli state against Palestinians. Our core mission is to actively pursue legal action against those responsible for these atrocities, including perpetrators, accomplices, and inciters of violence against Palestinians. Help us stay independent
Forensic Architecture : Cartography of Genocide platform and accompanying report develops a comprehensive mapping of military conduct in Gaza since 7 October 2023. The report, ‘A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023,’ is derived from Forensic Architecture’s ongoing research into the Israeli military’s conduct in Gaza and was provided to South Africa (SA) after being approached by SA to provide independent research and reporting for their ongoing submission in the case of Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel). For the provision of this report, Forensic Architecture received payment from South Africa.
Academic Solidarity With Palestine
Academic Solidarity With Palestine, organises online courses for students in Gaza. To date, over 350 courses have been offered with the help of more than 3,500 volunteer professors worldwide.
Publishers for Palestine
is a global collective of publishers, and others who work in publishing around the world, who stand for justice, freedom of expression, and the power of the written word.
Nobody can say they didn’t know,” says Palestinian writer, Susan Abulhawa
@AJIunit investigation exposes war crimes in Gaza through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year-long conflict. Watch the full film here.
Each Cent Counts, Quenching the Thirst of Humanity in Gaza City
The Gaza Municipality is tasked with providing vital services such as water supply, waste management and sewage treatment. However, the widespread destruction in Gaza City has severely hampered the Municipality's ability to deliver even the most basic necessities to its residents. (For access in English, select the language from the العربية tab at the top left of the site screen)
A call for immediate action to rebuild Gaza
Architects for Gaza proposes the formation of Gaza Reconstruction Collective; interdisciplinary self-help clusters to help in reconstruction.
United screens for Palestine
United Screens for Palestine is an open and decentralised collective of programmers, cultural workers and venues. We are responding to the paralysis brought about by the ongoing genocide as well as the increasing policing, censorship and criminalisation of everything Palestinian. We aim to make each screening a space for conversation, learning and most of all, mobilisation. And we firmly believe that to present these films is to insist that witnessing is an active process, far beyond the act of watching. Ultimately, we build on long standing global film initiatives which serve as platforms for substantive discussions and an earnest exploration of the historical narrative of Palestine.
We'll keep on giving news about initiatives throughout the world.