Greetings from the Red Cinema: Between Work and Resistance

One last time diesen Sommer! Selbstreferenziell wie immer verabschiedet sich Red Cinema dieses Mal mit KINGS AND EXTRAS: DIGGING FOR A PALESTINIAN IMAGE (2004) von Azza El-Hassan in den Sommer. El-Hassans Film über ihre Suche nach dem verschollenen Archiv der PLO könnt ihr gemeinsam mit uns im @naxos.kino am Dienstag, den 04.08.2026 um 19 Uhr ansehen. Zuvor wird es eine kleine Einführung von uns zu Palästina, Archiven und Filmarbeit geben.

Zum Film: „The films of the PLO Media Unit were supposed to show a self-determined image of Palestinian reality – and they went missing during the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. In a “road-movie” from Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, the director Azza El-Hassan follows the contradicting and confusing clues as to the whereabouts of the lost archive. The increasingly absurd search finally leads her to a martyr’s graveyard, where the films are said to be buried and where, for obvious reasons, no one is willing to dig. While Azza’s search for lost images leads her down various dead ends, she is confronted with new clues and starts to construct her own story. The film reflects the situation in the Middle East – a failed revolution, the problematic relationship with the Arab neighbours, the question of a Palestinian identity today. Azza El-Hassan shows myths, life stories and life lies, the personal effects of defeat and loss. She even brings some humour to the tragedy of the situation – to which she simultaneously feels a sense of belonging and opposition“ (Source: Palestine Filme Institute)

Was? KINGS AND EXTRAS: DIGGING FOR A PALESTINIAN IMAGE (2004) von Azza El-Hassan
Wann? Dienstag, 04. August 2026
Um wie viel Uhr? 19 Uhr
Wo? naxos.Kino
Waldschmidtstraße 19 HH
60316 Frankfurt

Ganz herzlich bedanken wir uns bei Azza El-Hassan @azza.elhassan.3 für die Bereitstellung des Films. Wir freuen uns sehr darüber diesen Film in dieser Ausgabe von Red Cinema dabeihaben zu dürfen.