{"id":11277,"date":"2024-12-09T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/?p=11277"},"modified":"2025-01-22T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:20:07","slug":"queer-nights-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/queer-nights-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Nights in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Queer Nights in Palestine<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cinema Queer x Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>21 dec, 16.00\u201319.00<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Organised together with Queers for Palestine Malm\u00f6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With: Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller, Roy Dibs, Hadi Moussally, Jocelyne Saab, Elias Wakeem<\/p>\n<p>In connection with Kortfilmsdagen (The Short Film Day), Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening invites you to a fundraising and film program in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to freedom and peace. During the evening, we present a collection of queer stories set against the backdrop of Palestine and the wider Middle East, selected by Cinema Queer. Exploring the connection between queer and Palestinian liberation, the films show how these struggles against oppression intertwine. Each film explores the depth of themes related to identity, love, longing and resistance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program<\/strong><br \/>\n16.00 The event starts<br \/>\n16.30\u201318.00 Screenings<br \/>\n18.00\u201319.00 Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>Language: Arabic, English, French, Turkish, all screened with English subtitles<br \/>\nFika will be provided<\/p>\n<p>The event is free of charge but please donate to the Palestinagruppernas emergency fundraising for Gaza. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/palestinagrupperna.se\/akutinsamling\/\">here<\/a>. Swish: 1239011578.<\/p>\n<p>Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Read our statement <a href=\"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/statement\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The movies in the program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EITR<\/strong> (14 mins)<br \/>\nFateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller, 2022<br \/>\n14 mins<\/p>\n<p>A closeted Arab wholesale perfume seller, attempting to mask his identity with excessive amounts of Polo Sport adjacent cologne, is knocked off center when a charming customer sees through his act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mondial 2010<\/strong> (19:17 mins)<br \/>\nRoy Dibs, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese artist Roy Dib presents an impossible love story between two men. His is a road movie that explores the institutional borders of the modern day Middle East<\/p>\n<p><strong>Le r\u00e8gne de Sultana<\/strong> (9:53 mins)<br \/>\nHadi Moussally, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Sultana of New York is a Palestinian drag queen, performer, and artist. While being painted by Jordanian artist RIDIKKULUZ, Sultana reflects on her journey from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon to New York. She tells of the challenges of performing drag in conservative societies, her nostalgia for the glory days of Egyptian cinema icons, and her struggle for her right to existence and self-expression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gender Caf\u00e9<\/strong> (26:53 mins )<br \/>\nJocelyne Saab, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Six 4-minute short films each filmed in the countries of the Mediterranean, and dealing with expressions of gender, the body, sexuality and identity. Six interviews with artists or people talking about these thorny issues makes for a geographical impression, a suffering body, subject to violence, repression and inhibition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homecoming Queenz<\/strong> (11:25 mins)<br \/>\nElias Wakeem, 2019<\/p>\n<p>This is a live performance shot by smartphones and was taken at Ben Gurion International Airport while on the way back from abroad. Through the act the artist is collaborating with Oz Marinov and they try to pass through the border with a unique clothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nCinema Queer<\/strong> is Sweden\u2019s largest international LGBTQ film festival, taking place in Stockholm, annually, during the last week of September. Cinema Queer was founded in 2012 with a mission to broaden the heteronormative cinematic selection in Sweden, as well as to offer Stockholm audiences a wide range of queer film.<\/p>\n<p>Cinema Queer focuses on films that question, discuss, and isn\u2019t limited to existing norms while highlighting stories that otherwise wouldn\u2019t be recognised. The aim is to create an accesible platform for LGTBQ film in Sweden, for both international and Swedish film makers and film lovers. During the year Cinema Queer showcase several special screenings, during events such as Stockholm Pride and Short Film Day (Kortfilmsdagen).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kortfilmsdagen<\/strong> (The Short Film Day) is an annual event on the shortest day of the year, 21 December, celebrating the short format through film screenings organised by various organisers around the country. Celebrated since 2011 by France&#8217;s Centre national du cin\u00e9ma et de l&#8217;image anim\u00e9e, Short Film Day was launched in Sweden in 2014 by the Swedish Film Institute, and since 2018 it has been project managed by Folkets Bio as part of Svensk Kortfilm c\/o Folkets Bio.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Hadi Moussally, Le r\u00e8gne de Sultana (video still), 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queer Nights in Palestine Cinema Queer x Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening 21 dec, 16.00\u201319.00 Organised together with Queers for Palestine Malm\u00f6 With: Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller, Roy Dibs, Hadi Moussally, Jocelyne Saab, Elias Wakeem In connection with Kortfilmsdagen (The Short Film Day), Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening invites you to a fundraising and film program in solidarity with the Palestinian people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evenemang"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["sv","en"],"languages":{"sv":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11277"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11325,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11277\/revisions\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}