Cinema Days Palestine – Naila and the Uprising
Description
In 2022, Docs Ireland programmer Stuart Sloan was invited to attend the film festival Cinema Days in Ramallah, Palestine, and to be on the jury for the Sunbird Award for Best Palestinian Documentary.
In 2023, our friends at Film Lab Palestine had to postpone that festival due to the ongoing Israeli bombardment.
Instead of celebrating cinema in Palestine, they brought Palestine to the world. Belfast Film Festival, along with many other organisations across the globe, hosted a solidarity screening to keep their festival alive. One year on, they are still unable to operate, so we are hosting another screening in support of our Palestinian colleagues.
The proceeds from this screening will be donated to the Ghassan Abu Sitta Fund, providing medical attention to the children who need it the most and helping to relieve the medical sector in Gaza. www.gascf.org
Naila and the Uprising
Naila and the Uprising is a 2017 documentary by filmmaker, Julia Bacha. Chronicling the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh and a fierce community of women at the frontlines, whose stories weave through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history – the First Intifada in the late 1980s.