PALESTINSKA FILMDAGAR I MALMÖ 6-7 april 2018
PALESTINIAN FILM DAYS IN MALMÖ April 6-7 2018

Palestinian Film Days returns to you for its second edition on the 6th and 7th of april, taking place in Panora Cinema. Furthermore, presenting a variety of film categories, including short, long films and documentaries. Additionally, hosting seminars, discussions and meetings with both Palestinian and Iraqi directors also actors whom both have contribute to the Palestinian Cinema. Moreover, Palestinian Film Days aims to demonstrate the Palestinian reality through cinema.

All the films are brought to you by the Palestinian cultural institue in Malmö. 
All films with English subtitle.

PROGRAM FRIDAY APRIL 6th

18:30
Opening ceremony + Open buffet

20:00
WANTED 18 + Q&A with director Amer Shomali

PROGRAM SATURDAY APRIL 7th

12:00
Art Gallery + Swedish fika

13:00
Documentary: ROSHMAIA - Salem Abu Jabal

15:00
Short Film Package + Q&A with director Mahdi Fleifel
AYNY - MY SECOND EYE - Ahmad Saleh
THE PARROT - Darin Sallam & Amjad Al Rasheed
PAPER BOAT - Mahmoud Abu Ghalwa
GAZA-HOLYWOOD - Saud Mohana
A MAN RETURNED - Mahdi Fleifel

17:00
Documentary: THE SUN BIRD - Ayed Nabaa

18:30
Seminar: IRAQI FILMMAKERS IN THE PALESTINIAN CINEMA

19:45
Open buffet

20:45
RETURN TO HAIFA + Q&A with director Kasem Hawal

22:35
Closing ceremony

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This year’s event, the organizors focused on a significant era for the history of the Palestinian cinema, which is the revolutionary cinema that was created by the ”The Palestinian Libration Organization” in Jordan also, Lebanon in the late sixties in addition, continued until the eighties.

Many western and Arab filmmakers worked in the Palestinian revolutionary cinema and among those the Iraqi writer and filmmaker Kassem Hawal, the director of the feature film ”Returning to Haifa” which is often cited as “the first Palestinian fiction film, based on a novel, written by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, produced in 1983 and funded entirely with Palestinian money (collected by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). And the film will be played in the closing night.

The films that partake in the event were carefully selected to suit the resulted cultural diversity of the Palestinian diasporas, they also reflect the Palestinian Cinema in all its stages. Consequently the films selection varies between films directed by Arabian filmmakers, films made by Palestinian directors in Gaza and West bank, As well as films made by Palestinian filmmakers in the diaspora. Aiming to portray the cultural richness and diversity in Palestinian cinema, which rose from the occupation with all the hardships, and managed to be a guardian of the Palestinian memories.

We welcome you for the second year to Palestinian Film Days, hoping that you thoroughly enjoy the event. We also thanks our partners and sponsors that continue to give and contribute to make this event a success in addition, to meet the high standards that suit the generous audience of Malmö.