Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Conversation: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Cinecycle 129 Spadina Ave. (Green door in the Alley)
In the shadow of Gaza, this past year has witnessed an unprecedented epidemic of anti-Palestinian racism in our film communities, with artists, scholars and their works being attacked, censored and banned.
At the same time, there’s been a groundswell of cinematic solidarity with Gaza, including Gaza Lives, No Arms in the Arts, Film Workers for Palestine and Film Students 4Palestine.
This month’s Open Forum is a conversation between human rights lawyer, activist Dania Majid, and filmmaker and activist BH Yael. OPEN FORUM It is a “last Tuesdays” monthly series of conversations about putting anti-racism on screen. It is co-presented by York’s Cinema with & Media Arts,imagineNATIVE, CFMDC, Reel Asian International Film Festival, Vtape, Cinemobilia, Toronto Film & Media Seminar, York’s Graduate Film Student Association, U of T’s Cinema Studies Institute, OCADU’s Art & Social Change, and TMU Image Arts, World Records, and York AMPD.
Dania Majid is a Toronto human rights lawyer, activist, co-founder and President of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association and co-founder/collective member of the Toronto Palestine Film Festival, now celebrating its 17th year.
BH Yael is a Toronto filmmaker, artist and activist whose works include Letter to My Tribe (2024, world premiere at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival), Lesson for Polygamists (2017), Palestine Trilogy (2006), and Fresh Blood (1996).
Image credit: Palestine Trilogy: Even in the Desert, (BH Yael 2006)