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Nov 2024
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32. (Arabic) Cinema of Palestine with Ol...

Edgar Mannheimer
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This episode is in Arabic! Sorry to all our non-Arabic speakers. You can watch the full episode with English subtitles on Youtube.

Is there such thing as Palestinian cinema? And what has the genoc!de in Gaza meant for film in the strip?

Ola Salama, herself from Gaza, is the Executive Director of Film Lab Palestine, an organisation aimed at revitalising the culture of films in Palestine, liberating it from the grasp of conventional European filmmaking industries and Hollywood.

In this episode, Ola and Edgar speak about the war in Gaza and the destruction it has wrought on the strip's cultural life.

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