Naila and the Uprising
A film by Julia Bacha
Documentary, Palestine/USA, 2017, 76', AR/EN/HE/e
Naila and the Uprising, when a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh whose story weaves through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history—the First Intifada in the late 1980s.
✦ Reading: Jehan Helou, The Power of Women’s International Solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution, She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World, 2023.
This screening is in collaboration with Filmclub Populaire
Film/Book Club is a series of screenings and readings by Les Complices* that focuses on feminist perspectives of the Palestinian struggle and tries to understand Palestine from a transnational feminist perspective. The series is a collaboration with other artists, groups, and spaces across Zürich. Inspired by our friends and comrades, Film/Book Club will create a space for collective watching, reading, discussion and coming together.
✦ 24. April 2024, 19:00–21:00
✦ Location: Les Complices*, Anwandstrasse 9, 8004 Zürich
