by laie | Jul 13, 2021
Emily Jacir (1972) is a writer, artist and filmmaker. She directs and founded the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir research centre for Art and Research in Bethlehem. Her work, transdisciplinary and difficult to catalogue, focuses on the present moment even though she also...
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...
by laie | Jul 12, 2021
Alia Arasoughly works as a professor of film and sociology in Palestine and is the co-founder and director of the NGO Shashat Women Cinema. She has worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in Palestine and the programme Empowerment of...
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...
by laie | Jun 27, 2021
Mai Masri (1959) is one of the pioneers of the new Palestinian cinema that arose after the first generation of revolutionary filmmakers. In 1983, with her first documentary film Under the Rubble, she became the top Palestinian director, camera operator and editor. She...
