The Palestinian Environmental Film Festival presents Jordan Valley Blues on Wednesday, 4pm, in Ithaca Falls Meeting Room at Ithaca College. This LifeSource film documents the lives and losses of Palestinian farmers in the Jordan Valley, where they are forced to abandon their land due to water shortages and abuses by the Israeli military. Following the film there will be a short presentation by Rebecca Cutter, M.A. Sustainable Development, and a Q&A with Hamza Zubeidat and Christopher Whitman, two workers from the MA’AN Development Center, which focuses on empowerment of women and youth in the Jordan Valley.
On Thursday, at 7pm, in Taughannock Falls Meeting Room, PEFF will screen With Blood Bidam. Juliana Fredman and Dan O’Reilly-Rowe follow men and women in Gaza and the West Bank trying to receive health care. Spanning seven months, the filmmakers offer a new perspective on the daily struggles and resistance of Palestinians. Through military checkpoints, dangerous bypass routes, over mountains, and through olive groves, medics, ambulance drivers, and doctors struggle to give adequate care to the Palestinian people.
Degrees of Incarceration documents the lives of Palestinian political prisoners’ families on Friday, at 4pm, in Textor 102. Director Amahl Bishara, a Anthropology professor at Tufts University, argues that understanding the psychological impact of imprisonment on families is essential for understanding the social dynamics of Palestinian communities. Through observational footage and interviews of people living in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Degrees of Incarceration tells the story of a mother whose sixteen year old soon has been imprisoned and the Lajee Center, a youth organization that resists the imprisonment of its community members. Palestinian youth create and perform a play to teach the children in the refugee camp how to handle military interrogation.
For a full schedule of upcoming events please go to icpeff.weebly.com.
Special thanks to FLEFF, the Ithaca College library, the School of Humanities and Sciences, Students for Justice in Palestine, Park Center for Independent Media, the Politics Department, and students of the “Seeking Sustainable Relationships Under War and Occupation” class.
All PEFF events are free and open to the public. For further information please email icpeff@gmail.com. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Samantha Lowe at slowe1@ithaca.edu. Please make requests for accommodations as far in advance as possible.
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