Dreams of a Nation works to promote access to Palestinian
films through collaborations with film festivals, organizations
and with our own screenings. The project was launched with
a major festival in New York in January 2003, which offered
a general retrospective of Palestinian filmmaking, as well
as premiering several new films by Palestinian filmmakers.
Our hope
was for Palestinian cinema to travel. Since then, Dreams of
a Nation has worked with other groups and film festivals in
the US and abroad, assisting them with gaining information
about and access to Palestinian films. Below please find links
to the archives of our first film festival, as well as a partial
list of the aforementioned collaborations.
January
2003 - Dreams of a Nation Film Festival (New York's first
Palestinian Film Festival)
February
2004 - Palestine Film Festival, in collaboration with Yabous
Productions (Showcasing Palestinian films in cities
and villages across Palestine in defiance of all checkpoints
and borders)
Other
Dreams of a Nation collaborative festivals and screenings:
Locarno
International Film Festival, Switzerland (Aug.
2-12, 2006) – Focus of Palestinian Cinema (2ndDreams
of a Nation collaboration with Locarno)
Images
from the Middle East, Natfilm
Festival,
Denmark (Aug. 2006)
Palestine
(August 2006) Irish & Palestinian Cinema encounter
Palestinian
Film Festival,
Scotland (May 12-27, 2006) Edinburgh Film House
Alwan
Film Festival, New York (April 14-23, 2006)
Arab
Film Festival 2005, Jerusalem (16-30 June 2005)
Yabous Productions
International
Festival of Films for Children & Young Adults,
Iran (Sept. 29-Oct. 4, 2004), Focus Palestinian Cinema,
Dreams
of a Nation Film Festival, Paris (June 1004) Screenings
held in Latin Quarter.
Switzerland
(August 6- 16th) in collaboration with 2003
Locarno Film Festival
New
York (June 11 - 26, 2003) in collaboration with
2003
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Seattle
(May 13 - 29th, 2003) - In collaboration with Hayaat
& the Palestine Solidarity Committee
And Dreams
of Nation continues to travel…
As we are always screenings films and working with a myriad
of festivals & organizations internationally on screenings
- we welcome submissions in a rolling, open call format. Our
traveling festival does not have specific dates nor locations
– it always depends on the country we are screening
in and the local organization we are working with. Additionally,
we are often asked to curate Palestinian film sections of
festivals and like to keep our archive and knowledge of Palestinian
cinema fresh... In addition, your film will go into our archive
(currently in New York) which is available for researches
and academics to preview. So please send your work to
Dreams
of a Nation.
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