Naila and the Uprising

Screenings

June 16, 2018
7:00 PM /
IFC Center
New York
Discussion with filmmaker Julia Bacha, film subject Naila Ayesh, producer Suhad Babaa, and executive producer Abigail Disney Moderated by Liesl Gerntholtz, Executive Director, Women's Rights division, HRW
QA Session with the Filmmaker
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"We can’t be free as women unless we’re in a free country. And even if we are free of the occupation, we can’t know freedom as long as we are subjugated in our own society." - Sama Aweidah, film subject, Naila and the Uprising

When an uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 1987, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable real-life journey of Naila Ayesh, a key figure in the First Intifada, which forced the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Using evocative animation, intimate interviews, and exclusive archival footage, this film tells the story the mainstream media missed: of a courageous clandestine women’s movement at the head of Palestinians’ struggle for freedom, bringing out of anonymity the courageous women activists whose contributions and sacrifices changed history, but whose stories have remained untold until now.

Filmmaker(s): 
Julia Bacha
Year: 
2017
76m
Language(s): 
Arabic, English, Hebrew, French
Genre: 
Documentary
Distributor: 
Just Vision
Film Website: 
Naila and the Uprising film website
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