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Screening will start at 12:00 PM US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, UK 17:00; Running Time 76 minutes, 2024, Arabic with English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by Q&A discussions with film director Darren Tatour.
About the Film
This film highlights the relationship between the absent and present Palestinian person and his memory, which preserves the history that the occupation wants to eradicate from existence. Memory becomes the most valuable thing that the people of the village of Damun possess. The people of the village of Damun do not want those memories to be erased. Conflicts against this memory continue until they turn into war. Damun was everything to its people, what it was once, what happened to it overnight, and how it sees its future. With memory, answers are formed.
Darren Tatour
Film Director, Poet, Photographer, Political Activist, and Social Media Activist
مع هذا الفيلم يبرز علاقة الإنسان الفلسطيني الغائب الحاضر بذاكرته التي تحفظ التاريخ الذي يريد الاحتلال إبادته عن الوجود، فتصبح الذاكرة هي أثمن ما يملكه سكان قرية الدامون. لا يريد أهل قرية الدامون لتلك الذكريات أن تمحى. تتوالى الصراعات ضد هذه الذاكرة لتتحول إلى حرب. كانت الدامون بمثابة كل شيء بالنسبة لسكانها، ما الشيء الذي كانت عليه ذات يوم، ما الذي حصل لها بين ليلة وضحاها، وكيف تراه سيكون مستقبلها. مع الذاكرة تتشكل الأجوبة.
About the Filmmaker
Dareen Tatour is a Palestinian poet, photographer, filmmiking, Political activist, and social media activist from Reineh, Palestine. In 2018, she was tried and convicted in an Israeli occupation court for inciting violence and supporting a terrorist organization, following the publication of a poem on social media. She was released in 2018 after serving a prison term.
Since then, world opinion has drawn attention to her case. The BBC said that "the poet's case has become a cause célèbre for free speech advocates and has drawn attention to a recent rise in Israeli arrests - of Palestinians in the occupied accused of incitement or planning attacks online. "PEN AMERICA has continuously supported Tatour’s case, stating that her conviction “relies on a wanton mischaracterization of her work and is an unacceptable attack on freedom of expression in Israel”. Jewish Voice for Peace and Adalah NY has also openly supported her.
Tatour is the recipient of the OXFAM Novib/PEN award 2019 for freedom of expression. A Hebrew online magazine, Maayan, awarded Tatour the 2016 prize for creativity in struggle, and she was also awarded the Danish Carl Scharenberg Prize for standing against injustice through her poetry in 2017.In 2020 she won the Freedom of Expression Award in Norway - Oslo.
Running through all Tatour’s work is a double narrative of oppression against the Palestinian people and also oppression of women under a patriarchal society.
Since her release from prison, She was convicted on May 30, 2018, and on 31 July 2018 sentenced to 5 months imprisonment. She was released in September, 2018.
Tatour has appeared at events around the world, including Holland, Sweden and Germany. She was a guest speaker at the CREA conference on violence against marginalized women. “I, Dareen Tatour”, a solo documentary work by Israeli actress, director and activist, has been shown both in Israel and abroad, based on Tatour’s experiences.
Social media posts and arrest:
In October 2015, Tatour published a poem on YouTube and Facebook titled "Qawem Ya Shaabi Qawemahum" ("Resist my people, resist them"),where the words were cited as the soundtrack to images of Palestinians in violent confrontations with the occupation army. This led to her arrest and indictment for incitement to violence and for support of a terrorist organization. A full translation of the poem as made by a police officer is cited in the indictment document. The rest of the indictment relates to 3 Facebook publication. She was sentenced to 5 months in prison after serving another three years in house arrest.
Source: Film Freeway