Atrocity Through the Lens

The upcoming program 'Atrocity through The Lens' brings two films that explore the Palestinian experience through unconventional narratives.

As suffering and the genocide in Gaza unfold during the age of digitized and portable media, we revisit two films that explore human suffering throughout decades of injust war.This program, guest-curated by Zeina, includes Abdallah Al-Khatib’s remarkable diary feature 'Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege’ (2021), set in Syria's largest Palestinian refugee camp during the civil war. And the short witty film ‘Trouble in Paradise’ (2018) by Mona Benyamin.

‘Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege’: As the Syrian revolution breaks out and the camp is cut off from the rest of the world, Al-Khatib and his friends begin documenting the daily life of the besieged, who face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, music, study, love, and joy. Hundreds of lives are irredeemably transformed – from Abdallah’s mother, who becomes a nurse,…