NOVEMBER 11 - 24, 2022
barbican cinemas | ica | curzon soho | soas
DOUBLE BILL
RECOVERY | MANSHIYYA
tuesDAY 15 NOVEMBER | 19:30
BRUNEI GALLERY LECTURE THEATRE, soas UNIVERSITY, BLOOMSBURY, WC1H 0XG
Recovery
Rashid Mashrawi | 2021 | 60’
Jaffa, a lost city in the Mediterranean Sea is kept alive through the memories of exiled Palestinians moving from refugee camp to refugee camp. A memory that does not fade is preserved through stories told from generation to generation.
Recovery uses oral sources and archival footage to bring the home of sweet oranges and beautiful beaches to life. Rashid Masharawi, the Jaffan director, transports us to the birthplace of his parents and grandparents who were dispossessed and forced into exile in 1948.
Manshiyya
Raneen Jeries | 2010 | 14’
Established in the late 1870s, the neighbourhood of Manshiyya lay to the northeast of the Palestinian city of Yaffa (Jaffa). By 1944, the neighbourhood was home to some 12,000 Palestinians as well as 1,000 Jews. It was well known locally for its Cafe Al Ansharah, a prominent meeting place for public officials, political leaders, and businessmen. But due to its location north of Jaffa’s centre, and hence between that town and Tel Aviv, Manshiyya soon become a target for Zionist military and expulsion plans, its ethnic cleansing commencing in April 1948, with Palestinian inhabitants expelled to Jordan as well as Gaza and Egypt.
Continuing her series of oral history films produced with Zochrot, this short film by Raneen Jeries documents the testimonies of Saleh Masri and Iftikhar Turk, two internally displaced Palestinian refugees from pre-1948 Manshiyya.