SOME STRINGS [Films for Palestine]

SCREENING

SATURDAY 27th

8:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Filmmakers and artists from around the world have come together to form Some Strings, an ensemble of unprecedented filmic gestures that together with others, aim at building up a narrative of world events, so that witnesses increase.

“Each memory that is freed is the first step for all memories to gather” (Edouard Glissant).Some strings is rooted in that which stains the screens of history: in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer, like so many other beings, was targeted by Israeli strikes and killed along with seven other members of his family. His last poem, If I Must Die, written between earth and sky five weeks before his death, calls for the making of a kite with some strings. Some strings inherited his poem, as did each of his reader. The kite, now an object of resistance, and its strings, now in the hands of some one hundred artists, represent a diversity of perspectives on one of the darkest moments of the 21st century. Some strings is released as widely as possible, all over the world, in cinemas as part of a pre-show program, in festivals, In a constant move, in a wide variety of spaces, because each one takes it own piece of string.