In its advocacy to free Palestine, the Philippine-Palestine Friendship Association (PPFA) will present two documentaries in “Lens of Liberation: Films of Struggle from the Philippines to Palestine” on Tuesday, October 28, at the UP Film Institute in the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City. The screening starts at 4:30 p.m., followed by a forum.
The program features two documentaries. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha’s Naila and the Uprising follows Palestinian feminist Naila Ayesh and her journey through the First Intifada, the first nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history during the late 1980s.
Filipino filmmaker Lot-lot Hermosura’s The River Flows in Different Places is a 20-minute documentary that tells the story of two Filipino-Palestinian mothers who return to the Philippines after the October 7 attacks in 2023, as they attempt to rebuild a sense of home in a land both familiar and foreign.
Following the screenings, the PPFA will hold a forum featuring the filmmakers, co-organizers, and Filipino-Gazan participants from The River Flows in Different Places, and representatives from various Palestine solidarity organizations.
Seats can be reserved through a pay-what-you-can scheme here.
