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Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 18:00 Europe; 19:00 Palestine; 17:00 UK; 05:00 New Zealand; running time, 28 minutes; English Subtitles; 2025. The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A discussion with film director Jen Marlow, and Gabriella Haddad.
About the Film
Severed is a call to witness, a call to action, and a call to solidarity. As the genocide in Gaza escalates, so does the mass disabling of Palestinians. Thousands are surviving with life-altering injuries, amputations, and immense trauma—while access to medical care has been systematically destroyed.
This October, we mark two years of genocide in Gaza. It is also National Disability Awareness Month in the U.S.—a critical moment to mobilize. Throughout the month, we are calling on communities around the world to host local screenings and discussions of Severed.
We believe that commitment to disability justice must center Palestinians and address this crisis unfolding in real time.
Severed is grounded in the story of Mohamad Saleh, a teenager from Gaza who has survived five major Israeli assaults. In those attacks, he lost his home, close family members, his best friends, and—at the age of 12—his leg. Mohamad has lived for years with the physical and emotional impacts of that violence, including surviving genocide with an amputated limb.
His story reflects the broader reality of thousands of other Palestinians whose disabilities are the direct result of Israel’s systematic violations of international law.
Jen Marlowe
About Film Director
Jen is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects.
Jen’s films include There Is A Field, Witness Bahrain, Remembering the Gaza War, Rebuilding Hope: Sudan’s Lost Boys Return Home and Darfur Diaries: Message From Home. Her books include I Am Troy Davis, The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker and Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival.
Jen identifies first and foremost as a social justice/human rights activist and considers her filming and writing to be tools of her activism. When not found filming, writing, protesting, or engaged in other forms of resistance to state and structural violence, she can be found backpacking on the Pacific Crest Trail or talking aloud to photos of Slider and Sadie, her neph-pup and niece-pup. She has human nieces and nephews (three of them biologically related and is an auntie to many others across the globe) whom she also adores.
Jen goes by she/her pronouns and lives and works on unceded Duwamish territory in what is now known as Seattle.