>> Film Screening: TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT (February 10)
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 05:27 AM
PALESTINE, GAZA STRIP, DEC 08 – JAN 09
An eyewitness account of "Operation Cast Lead"
A documentary by Alberto Arce & Mohammad Rujailah
First-time showing in Montreal
Wednesday, FEBRUARY 10, 2010
Film begins at 7:30pm
1455 de Maisonneuve West, Auditorium H-110
(Guy-Concordia Metro)
FREE – Wheelchair accessible
TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT is a raw, on-the-ground, rare, first-hand view of the siege of Gaza during Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009).
ABOUT THE FILM: Gaza Strip has been under siege since June 2007, when Israel declared it an "enemy entity". A group of international activists organized a siege-breaking movement, the Free Gaza movement. Thanks to their efforts, and despite the Israeli ban on foreign correspondents and humanitarian aid workers to cover and witness “Operation Cast Lead" on the ground, a group of international volunteers -- self organized members of the International Solidarity Movement -- were present in Gaza when the bombing started on December, 27th 2008. Together with two international correspondents from Al Jazeera International, they were the only foreigners who managed to write, film and report for several radio stations what was happening inside the besieged Palestinian strip. A film embedded inside the ambulances of Gaza.
(112 minutes, released in January 2010, English and Arabic, with English subtitles)
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Part of QPIRG Concordia’s KEEPING IT REEL Subversive Cinema Series,
in collaboration with Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at Concordia, and Not In Our Name-Concordia, a working group of QPIRG Concordia.
