TASHARUK

GENDER, CULTURE AND RESISTANCES IN PALESTINE

النوع والثقافة والمقاومة في فلسطين

Najwa Najjar

by Ariadna | Jan 26, 2022

Najwa Najjar was born in Washington in 1973 to a Palestinian mother and a Jordanian father. She studied political science and economics before studying film in the United States. In 2000, she and her husband Hani Kort founded their own production company, Ustura...

Mona Benyamin

by Ariadna | Dec 27, 2021

Mona Benyamin is a young Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker. Born in 1997 in Haifa, she studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Her work explores intergenerational perspectives on hope, trauma and questions of identity, using humour and...

Anne Marie Jacir

by laie | Jul 12, 2021

Anne Marie Jacir is a filmmaker and poet. She has worked at several universities in Palestine and in the United States. Since 1994, she has written, produced and directed over a dozen films and founded her own production company, Philistine Films, based in Jordan and...

Shashat Women Cinema

by laie | Jun 28, 2021

Shashat Women Cinemais an independent NGO that was created in Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) in 2005 with the aim of making films by women for women as a means of empowerment. According to its founder, the director Alia Arasoughly, Shashat initially began as a set of...

Laila Abbas

by laie | Jun 27, 2021

Laila Abbas (1980) is an independent producer, screenwriter and director. She graduated with a degree in Cinema in Jordan, began her career working in administration in television until her passion for telling her stories led her to making her first films. In 2010,...