Sugarcane
5 June 2025
Producer Kellen Quinn joins the post-screening Roundtable discussion.
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, Sugarcane illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere. Debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning.
4 June 2025
The documentary, co-produced by Hafıza Merkezi (Truth, Justice, Memory Center), highlights the case of seven Kurdish villagers, including three children, who were forcibly disappeared in 1995, and the relentless legal battle by their families and lawyer Erdal Kuzu seeking justice and accountability in an environment marked by systemic state violence and impunity.
Q&A with the director Berke Baş, and Dr Noémi Lévy-Aksu, Programme Director of Memory and Peace Studies at Hafıza Merkezi.
Q&A with the director Berke Baş, and Dr Noémi Lévy-Aksu, Programme Director of Memory and Peace Studies at Hafıza Merkezi.
The Struggle for Palestine
and the Architectures of Settler Colonialism
17-18 May 2024
17 May 2024 Architectures of Occupation
Dana Erekat & Eyal Weizman
18 May 2024 Settler Colonialism: Law, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Struggle
Sai Englert
Rob Knox
Nadia Bou Ali
Abboud Hamayel
Samir Eskanda
Sultan Doughan
Barnaby Raine
Detailed information here (PDF)
Organised by Ghalya Saadawi, Manca Bajec, Adnan Madani
Dana Erekat & Eyal Weizman
18 May 2024 Settler Colonialism: Law, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Struggle
Sai Englert
Rob Knox
Nadia Bou Ali
Abboud Hamayel
Samir Eskanda
Sultan Doughan
Barnaby Raine
Detailed information here (PDF)
Organised by Ghalya Saadawi, Manca Bajec, Adnan Madani
River Cinema
14 March 2024
A film series organised by Dr Ifor Duncan
Maddi Barber, Urpean Lurra (Land Underwater), 2019, 50 mins
In 2003, the Itoiz reservoir flooded seven villages and three nature reserves in the Pyrenees. Solidari@s with Itoiz documented the fight against its construction on video. Today, activists, former inhabitants of the area and the director of the film still dream about the region’s past and the land that remains underwater.
Sonia Levy, We Marry You, O Sea, as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion, 2023, 18 min 12 secs
We Marry You, O Sea, as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion engages with Venice and its Lagoon "from below", bringing attention to the city's submerged, life-giving, and altered bio-geomorphological processes rather than on its often-recounted political and military histories. Underwater filmmaking exposes a fractured and troubled environment that complicates mainstream historical narratives that start above the water's surface.
Imani Jacqueline Brown, What Remains at the Ends of the Earth? 2022, 11 mins 29 secs
What remains at the ends of the earth? investigates the intersecting histories of land inhabited by Black Louisianans, and the vast network of fossil fuel infrastructure that overlays these sites today. It aims to bring visibility to the ways fossil fuel production inherits the racist spatial, economic, and environmental logics imposed by slavery.
We Marry You, O Sea, as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion engages with Venice and its Lagoon "from below", bringing attention to the city's submerged, life-giving, and altered bio-geomorphological processes rather than on its often-recounted political and military histories. Underwater filmmaking exposes a fractured and troubled environment that complicates mainstream historical narratives that start above the water's surface.
Imani Jacqueline Brown, What Remains at the Ends of the Earth? 2022, 11 mins 29 secs
What remains at the ends of the earth? investigates the intersecting histories of land inhabited by Black Louisianans, and the vast network of fossil fuel infrastructure that overlays these sites today. It aims to bring visibility to the ways fossil fuel production inherits the racist spatial, economic, and environmental logics imposed by slavery.
Screening: Al Jaar Qabla al Daar
21 November 2024
الجار قبل الدار
“The Neighbour before the House” is a series of video probes into the landscape of East Jerusalem. Shot with a CCTV security camera, these images show that before and after instrumental "surveillance", there is inquisitiveness, jest, memory, desire and doubt that pervades the project of watching. In these specific times and places, camera movements and live commentary become ways in which Palestinian residents evaluate what can be seen, and speak about the nature of their distance from others.
Camp website
“The Neighbour before the House” is a series of video probes into the landscape of East Jerusalem. Shot with a CCTV security camera, these images show that before and after instrumental "surveillance", there is inquisitiveness, jest, memory, desire and doubt that pervades the project of watching. In these specific times and places, camera movements and live commentary become ways in which Palestinian residents evaluate what can be seen, and speak about the nature of their distance from others.
Camp website