🇵🇸 Senses of Cinema Issue Launch: Cinema of Global Solidarity & Palestinian Struggle

🗓️ May 1, 7:30pm
📍 Anthology Film Archives

“This program features five films from the “Tokyo Reels” collection, offering a glimpse into the multifaceted narratives of the Palestinian struggle. “The Tokyo Reels” is a research project that traces Palestinian revolutionary cinema’s political and cultural entanglements. By restoring a collection of films screened in Japanese leftist circles during the 1970s and 1980s, the project explores the historical and ideological conditions that shaped the anti-colonial networks of global solidarity with the Palestinian revolution. These five films – made by Iraqi, Egyptian, German, and Japanese filmmakers – move beyond simplistic portrayals of victimhood, revealing the revolution as a space of contradiction and complexity, where loss intertwines with hope and local resistance resonates with international solidarity. The program highlights the diverse perspectives and creative expressions that emerged during this turbulent era and that shaped cinematic solidarities around Palestine.
Founded in 1999, “Senses of Cinema” is a quarterly online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of film. Institutionally non-aligned and widely read around the world, “Senses” has published thousands of articles (all freely available) on a rich spectrum of independent, experimental, and mainstream cinema. This event announces the publication of Issue 113, featuring a dossier on cinematic solidarities with Palestine. For more info and to subscribe and support, visit: 🔗 https://www.sensesofcinema.com/”