S’ils me la prennent لو أخدوه

‘If I abandon my house, they’ll take the whole hill,’ says Um Ayman Soufan. This courageous and determined woman lives in the village of Burin near Nablus. She defends the house where she lives with her sons, daughters and their children, against the incessant and unprecedentedly violent attacks by Israeli settlers from the Yitzhar settlement.

Directed by

Liali Kilani

2014 | 14 min | Arab (st. English)

Filmmaker’s country : Germany
Country of filming : Palestine

Co-curated with Regards Palestiniens.

*The session will be followed by a discussion with:

Nada El-Omari, a filmmaker and writer of Palestinian and Egyptian origin based in Montreal, Quebec. Her practice and research focus on the intergenerational transmission of memory, displacement, and stories of belonging and identity, which she explores through a poetic and hybrid lens.

Muhammad Nour El Khairy, a Palestinian filmmaker, videographer, film programmer, and editor originally from Jordan, currently based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). His work is driven by an understanding of moving images as complex living systems, whose political reach goes beyond representational capacity to include their funding, production, and distribution.

Moderated by Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Concordia University. She is currently working on an ethnographic project examining the politics of visual arts and the role of artists in expanding Palestinian imagination. Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is a founding member of Insaniyyat, the society of Palestinian anthropologists.