Sunday 11 March 2012

10.30am for 11am, at the Renoir Cinema. 

 JAFFA: THE ORANGE’S CLOCKWORK

Eyal Sivan, Belgium/Germany/France/Israel 2010 [Advised E], 86 mins, French/Arabic/Hebrew/English with EST

Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan peels back the orange skin to expose the history and layers of meaning in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict through the Jaffa brand, a globalised image reproduced in the media and authenticated by historians as the symbolic life-affirming fruit of the 'Holy Land'.  The image of the orange, rebranded by the Palestine Liberation Organisation as a grenade, is the fruit dripping with the blood of the lost lands and its people.

 BARKING ISLAND

Serge Avédikian, France 2010 [Advised 12A],15 mins

In 1910 the Turkish authorities rounded up 30,000 stray dogs in Constantinople and transported them to die on a deserted island in the Bosporus. The haunting images and soundtrack in this animation foretell the genocide of the Armenian people which was initiated by the Turks in 1915.  This film won the Palme D'Or in 2010.

Discussion led by Sarah Colbourne, Director, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Frank Barat, Co-ordinator, Russell Tribunal on Palestine and co-author of Corporate Complicity in Israel’s Occupation (Pluto 2011), and Vaughan Pilikian, filmmaker (Hammer and Flame)



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