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Activity
Monday, November 4, 2024
Palestine Cinema Days
Screening of the documentary The Wanted 18, by Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali
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MACBA joins the international initiative launched last year in solidarity with the Palestinian film festival Cinema Days, forced to be held in exile. During the first days of November, organisations and spaces all over the world will once again screen films from the festival free of charge. One of the featured films, the documentary The Wanted 18, will be screened at MACBA. Through humour and animation, it tells the story of a Palestinian community’s resistance during the 1987 uprising.
Presentation by Amer Shomali, director of The Wanted 18 (online from Ramallah), in conversation with María Berríos, Director of Curatorial Programmes and Research at MACBA.
This feature film combines live action footage with animation to tell the curious story of 18 cows. Acquired by a Palestinian community in the late 1980s, the cows became a symbol of freedom and resistance, providing milk for the Palestinian residents of Beit Sahour, so that they would not have to rely on Israeli producers. Soon the illegal cows, cherished by the Palestinians, were being sought by the Israeli army as a threat to national security. With humour and passion, this film captures the spirit of the 1987 uprising through the personal experiences of those who lived it.
Palestine Cinema Days Festival is an annual event organised by Filmlab Palestine in October of each year. It aims to put Palestine on the map of the global cinema industry and the film scene, in addition to promoting local and international films across several places in different cities within Palestine. Filmlab Palestine launched the first edition of Palestine Cinema Days in 2014 (which was called Cinema Days) and it has become an annual tradition ever since.
In 2023, Filmlab Palestine had to postpone their Palestine Cinema Days festival. Instead of celebrating cinema in Palestine, they brought Palestine to the world. MACBA hosted “Palestine Cinema Days Around the World”, which happened in 86 cities, across 139 venues, spanning 41 countries! This global event featured 171 screenings of 9 films from and about Palestine.
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Programme
19:00 – 20:15 h
Screening: The Wanted 18, Amer Shomali, Paul Cowan, 2014, Palestine-Canada, documentary, animation, 76’, original version with Spanish subtitles.
20:15 – 20:45 h
Q&A with Amer Shomali and María Berríos (in English without simultaneous interpretation)
participants
María Berríos 
Amer Shomali
artists
2 artists
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