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Film Screening: “Speed Sisters” (2015) 85 mins

March 4, 2021April 23, 2022 News, Palestine, Projects Amber Fares, festival, film, film screening, Speed Sisters, street car racing, Zait wa Zaatar

The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, SPEED SISTERS takes you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought you could.#zaitwazaatarberlin#SpeedSisters

Film Screening: “Recollection” (2015) 70 mins

February 11, 2021April 23, 2022 News, Palestine, Projects festival, film, film screening, Kamal Aljafari, recollection, Zait wa Zaatar

Welcome to the next event of the online version of our ongoing [zait wa: zaʕtar] Festival of Palestinian Arts and Culture! For the next upcoming lockdown weekend, we prepared a the screening of Kamal Aljafari’s film ‘Recollection’ for you, together with the artist talking with the festival’s film curator Nahed Awwad.

Film Screening: ‘A Magical Substance Flows Into Me’

February 4, 2021April 23, 2022 Newsletter, Palestine, Projects festival, Jumana Manna, Palestinean film, Robert Lachmann, Zait wa Zaatar

Over the course of the film, Manna follows in Dr. Robert Lachmann’s footsteps and visits Kurdish, Moroccan and Yemenite Jews, Samaritans, members of urban and rural Palestinian communities, Bedouins and Coptic Christians, as they exist today within the geographic space of historical Palestine.

Zait WaZa3tar Festival: 22.11.2020 – Against the Loveless World – Book Discussion with Susan Abulhawa

November 19, 2020April 23, 2022 Palestine, Projects book discussion, Palestine, Susan Abulhawa, Zait wa Zaatar

Following our discussion of “Silences & Words” in Palestinian literature (you can find the recording of the event here), we are glad to announce this discussion with award-winning novelist Susan Abulhawa on her latest book “Against the Loveless World” on November 22nd 2020, 6 PM. Published first in 2019 in German (dt. “Nahrs Letzter Tanz”), […]

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