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A CELEBRATION OF CINEMA 🎉🎬 ⭐️ Movies, short films, and documentaries were screened, celebrated, and discussed for a whole week as Palestine Cinema Days took place all over the country.
There were films for both children and adults, for crying and laughing, for entertainment and enlightenment. 🎥 One of the screenings that moved the staff of The Danish House the most was the short documentary titled ‘With Abu Jamal.’ The film is directed by Norwegian @sirinerbo and produced by Danish Rebekka Jørgensen, and is a heartwarming portrait of the elderly Abu Jamal who owns a kiosk near Al-Manara Square in Ramallah. 🇵🇸 Before sitting down in the red chairs at the A.M. @Qattanfoundation, we had not expected to laugh as much as we did, as we watched the sweet interactions between both Abu Jamal and his customers and Abu Jamal and Siri Nerbø who was behind the camera. Even though Abu Jamal does not speak English and Siri Nerbø does not speak Arabic, it was clear that a bond was forming between the two as the film unfolded. The experience was made even better as Abu Jamal himself was in the audience commenting on the film throughout. 🎞 The Danish House has supported the film festival - and @filmlabpalestine who is behind the festival - since the first edition six years ago, and since then Cinema Days has grown to become one of the most important cinematic events of the year. Our contribution to Cinema Days includes covering costs in relation to screenings of Danish films and visits from Danish film professionals. 🇩🇰 Director @christinarosendahl was among the Danes visiting Palestine this year – check out our talk with her on Facebook.

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VIOLENCE IN THE SPOTLIGHT 💥⠀
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“There are huge problems with violence against women all over the world – and here as well,” says Danish film director @christinarosendahl⠀
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💔 A recent example of this is the alleged so-called honor killing of Palestinian woman Israa Gharib – a case that Christina Rosendahl also followed closely in Denmark. ⠀
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She sees it as a positive sign that the case has caused such a big uproar, because one way of stopping gender-based violence is talking about the issue and breaking the taboo surrounding the problem. ⠀
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🎬 This is also why Christina Rosendahl spent five years creating her documentary VOLD i kærlighedens navn / “Violently in love.” The film is about a group of women living at Danner Krisecenter, a crisis center for women and children who have been subjected to violence by someone close to them. ⠀
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And violence is not a stranger to Christina Rosendahl. She grew up with a violent father and a mother who was beaten regularly. She, her mother, and two younger sisters managed to escape the violent father and go underground for a period of time. ⠀
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💪 “I have not come here from a privileged country that has the answer as to how to solve this problem. I think that this is one perspective on how to create empowerment in women who have been subjected to violence,” says Christina Rosendahl.⠀
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“Violently in love” was screened in Ramallah and Nablus during Palestine Cinema Days, a film festival organised by @filmlabpalestine and supported by The Danish House in Palestine.

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CUT! 🎬⠀
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Palestine Cinema Days is coming to an end. The closing film is a strong portrait of Palestinian Ziad, who struggles to rejoin modern society after 15 years of imprisonment. ⠀
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🇵🇸 In the movie “Screwdriver,” Ziad fights to distinguish reality from hallucinations, while he is forcing himself to go back to where it all began.⠀
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“Screwdriver” is directed by @jarbawi and will be screened tonight at 7 at Ramallah Cultural Palace. ⠀ ⠀
🙏 As a partner of Filmlab Palestine, the organization behind Palestine Cinema Days, we at The Danish House hope that you have had the chance to be surprised, enlightened, enraged and delighted during the last week’s many movie screenings. See you next year!

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A BARBER LIKE NO OTHER 💈✂️⠀
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Today is your one and only chance to watch Q’s Barbershop during Palestine Cinema Days! The documentary is a heartfelt portrait of barber Qasim, who instills dignity, inspiration and hope in young people through something we can all relate to: a cool haircut. However, it is also a story about what it feels like to grow up in one of the most notorious housing projects in Denmark.⠀
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🎞 Watch the documentary by Danish director Emil Langballe / @insta_emiiil at Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem tonight at 6!

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AN APOCALYPSE IN BETHLEHEM 🌊🌪🔥⠀
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This sci-fi short film is co-directed by Palestinian @larissasansour and Danish Søren Lind. Shot completely in black and white, the film centers around the aftermath of an eco-disaster in Bethlehem and Alia, the woman destined to rebuild the biblical city. The title, “In vitro,” refers to the technique of performing an experiment outside a living organism, typically in a test tube.⠀
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🎥 Catch it at the Red Crescent Society in Gaza at 5 tonight, or at Cinemana in Nazareth tomorrow at 7!

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ABU JAMAL AND THE OCCUPATION 🇵🇸⠀
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Despite language barriers, Norwegian @sirinerbo spent countless hours in the company of Abu Jamal, who sells cigarettes and sweets to the local residents of Ramallah. The result? A short documentary titled “With Abu Jamal” that not only portrays Abu Jamal, but also the occupation he lives under.⠀
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📽 If you are in Ramallah tonight, you have the chance to watch the short film and ask Siri Nerbø your questions at the A.M. Qattan Foundation at 7! If you are in Nazareth, head to Cinemana at 7.

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AN UNKNOWN FATE 👁⠀
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When Lina Al Abed was six years old, her father left the family home and never returned. Now, 32 years later, the Palestinian director has made the documentary film “Ibrahim, a Fate to Define” about her father, Ibrahim Al Abed, who worked as a secret agent for the “Revolutionary Council.”⠀
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🔎 In the documentary, Lina Al Abed is looking for the answers as to why her farther decided to leave his family and what really happened to him more than 30 years ago.⠀
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“Ibrahim, a Fate to Define” is being screened tonight in Ramallah and will also be screened in Gaza on Tuesday at the Red Crescent Society.

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A COMPLICATED FAMILY (HI)STORY 🌳⠀
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Omar Shargawi grew up in Denmark with a Danish mother, a Palestinian father and a longing to understand himself, his roots and his father who always seemed ashamed of him and his two brothers. “Western Arabs” is Omar Shargawis intimate portrait of a father-son relationship that is anything but simple. ⠀
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🎥 Watch it tonight at 6 at the Municipal Theater in Ramallah, where you also have the chance to ask Omar Shargawi about his film.

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❌ NO MEANS NO ❌⠀
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During this year’s edition of Palestine Cinema Days, gender-based violence and women’s rights are in the spotlight. As part of the initiative, the Danish movie “Violently in love” is being screened tonight in Ramallah, followed by a Q&A with director @christinarosendahl ⠀
💔 “Violently in love” is documentary film shot over five years at Danners Krisecenter, a crisis center for women and children who have been subjected to violence by someone close to them. The film is unique in that Christina Rosendahl and her team is the first film crew to have been allowed access to the crisis center to create their documentary.⠀
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If you are not able to watch the movie tonight in Ramallah, catch it in Nablus Tuesday next week!

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