Palestine 36,
A film by Annemarie Jacir,
Historical Drama, Palestine, 2025, 112', AR/EN/e
Palestine 36 is a film about a pivotal moment in Palestinian history: the 1936 uprising under British colonial rule, when mass organising, strikes and popular resistance confronted a regime built to suppress indigenous self-determination while enabling the Zionist settler-colonial project to take root.
“Rare archival footage sets the stage, providing a potent counterpoint to the dramatic action: Jerusalem’s bustling mix of peoples in the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s dissolution, the migration of European Jews fleeing the Nazis, and British attempts to impose colonial rule.” —Toronto International Film Festival.
✦ Reading: The Emergence of the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1929-39, by Ellen L. Fleischmann, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol.29 No. 3-Spring 2000.
The Third Cinema Club (formerly Film/Book Club) is a series of screenings and collective readings by Les Complices* that reimagines the radical legacy of “the third”. It draws on Third Cinema, as articulated by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino (1969), which envisioned a revolutionary, anti-colonial cinema positioned outside both the commercial and the individualistic (auteurist art films). Conceived as a feminist and diasporic space of study, witnessing, and imagination, the series invites the audience to watch and read together, creating moments of shared reflection and conversation that move fluidly between film and text. By bringing people together outside both institutional and domestic settings, The Third Cinema Club cultivates practices of solidarity, critical thought, and collective world-making.
✦ 25. January 2026, 18:00–21:00
✦ Location: Les Complices*, Anwandstrasse 9, 8004 Zürich
