The screening series 'Palestine Everywhere- Looking at Palestinian Migration through Concordia’s Film Collection' is born from a desire to activate the vast collection of film about Palestine present in the film collections house within Concordia University. These films are often used as teaching material in a variety of courses offered by the university, but they are seldom used in other contexts. This screening series aims at filling this gap by providing a larger audience for some of these films, in order to continue fostering discussions about Palestine at Concordia University. The themes of the screening series will revolve around various aspects of Palestinian migration: displacement, border-crossing, exile, diaspora. These are fundamental aspects of every Palestinian lived experience, and they have become particularly urgent after Israel’s attacks on Gaza and the West Bank after October 7. The screenings in this series are aimed at fostering discussion about the global Palestinian experience and the right for Palestinians to return and live freely in their homeland. Each screening will be introduced by an expert on core themes of the film, and they will also moderate the following discussion with help from the organizers.
(Tawfiq Saleh, Syrian Arab Republic, 1972), 107 min
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the “promised land.” A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani’s novel Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.
Facilitator: Claire Begbie
Curator: Marco Meneghin