Sumoud: A Portrait of Palestinian People and Their Art

6:00 Doors

Programming

Short: Like Twenty Impossibles (2003) – 16min – Both a visual poem and a narrative about the fragmentation of a people, “like twenty impossibles”, also questions the politics of filmmaking and the opportunism of artists.

Film One: Slingshot HipHop (2008)  – 1hr40min – Braids together the stories of young Palestinian artists living in Gaza, the West Bank, and inside Israel as they discover hip hop, and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty.

Film Two: Salt of this Sea (2008) – 1hr49min – An American-born Palestinian woman, who heads to Israel and Palestine on a quest to reclaim her family’s home and money that were taken during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

**Wearing masks is greatly appreciated for the immunocompromised. Masks and sanitation stations will be available to all guests.