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Monthly Screenings

Discussions, performances, conversations, and films exploring human mobility and immigration in the 21st century

Thursday | 03.02.22 to Wednesday | 25.02.32
Sun., 06.03: Art, Activism, and Human Mobility
Saturday | 12.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Film
Sunday 06.03.22 | 18:00

As American borders close down, the daughter of Iranian exiles works as a dream catcher for the Census Bureau. What at first seems a whimsical mission is revealed as a plot to control the populace. Land of Dreams offers an intriguing exploration of identity, immigration, and freedom.

Sunday | 06.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Film
Sunday 06.03.22 | 18:30

In the late 1970s, a group of extraordinary people and musicians, including The Clash, the Tom Robinson Band, and Joy Division, stood together against the rise of nationalism, racism, and hatred in Britain. This remarkable and historical moment is told through a wealth of archival footage, music, and interviews. 

Monday | 07.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Mon., 07.03: The Journey
Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32

Following the screening, conversation (in Heb.) with filmmaker Roni Aboulafia and journalist Danna Harman on how, against all odds, they rescued a group of women from the Taliban. Moderator: Dr. Shai Tagner

A young European doctor’s voyage to the heart of the Atlantic is cut short when she encounters a boat overloaded with refugees. Styx is a unique, engrossing, refreshing, and effective film that takes a tough, yet not didactic, position on the West’s attitude toward the issue of refugees.

Wednesday | 09.02.22 to Wednesday | 31.12.31
Talk and Performance

Cherubin Ngemba, a well-known musician in the Congo is an asylum seeker who runs a children's music school and frequently performs with his musical ensemble. Ngemba will perform and share his remarkable story. Free entrance  

Tuesday | 08.02.22 to Tuesday | 27.05.31
Talk
Cinematheque Gallery
Award-winning Italian photographer Nicoló Filippo Rosso will talk about his exhibition that documents how mass migration and its ripple effects are upending lives across the Americas.
Tuesday | 08.02.22 to Tuesday | 24.02.32
Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Film and Talk
Tuesday 08.03.22 | 18:00

Following the screening, recorded conversation with Pulitzer Prize laureate Jose Antonio Vargas. Moderator: Netta Ahituv, Haaretz

From an early age, Pulitzer prize laureate Jose Antonio Vargas has known that he was undocumented. He perceives himself as American, but in the eyes of the law, he is an illegal foreigner. This civic and personal journey explores the tension between borders and sovereignty and identity and belonging.

Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32

Prior to the screening panel discussion (in Heb.) with Dr. Shai Tagner, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Prof. Galia Zabar, Tel Aviv University, and Prof. Efrat Ben Zeev Ruppin Academic Center (30 min.)

Four asylum seekers are sent to a small Scottish island to await their cases. The passing time fuels their growing anxiety. Though the premise is dramatic, Limbo is "witty, poignant, marvellously composed and shot, moving and even weirdly gripping" (The Guardian).   

Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Wed., 09.03: Children of Immigrants and Immigrant Children
Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Talk and Performance
Free Entrance

Conversation with Kai Jack, founder of The Dream Orchestra Jerusalem, and musical pieces by the children, followed by a conversation with Daniel Labin, Vice President, International Projects at Sesame Workshop. 

Wednesday | 02.02.22 to Sunday | 29.02.32

Prior to the screening, panel discussion (in Heb.) with: Ruta Brahana, asylum seeker and activist, Ayala Shani, director of early childhood Mesila (30 min.)

The movie follows a daycare center for the children of refugees in south Tel Aviv through the eyes of Lula, a captivating Eritrean girl and her teacher Blessing. The director is pulled into the complex reality of refugees in Israel. 

Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Monday | 07.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Thurs., 10.03: The Argument
Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Sunday | 29.02.32
At The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Free entrance

Refugees, Not Jews

Short film presentation, White Eye (Israel 2019), dir.: Tomer Shushan, followed by a panel discussion on Israel's conflict as a Jewish state with asylum seekers and refugees, presentation of Antigone (Canada 2019), dir.: Sophie Deraspe
Film
Thursday 10.03.22 | 18:00

17-year-old Ola sets out on an odyssey through the streets of Dublin to bring her father’s body back to Poland after he died in a work accident. I Never Cry is an exceptional work that takes us through an emotional roller coaster that plays on the heartstrings.  

Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Film
Thursday 10.03.22 | 20:30

Esteemed street artist JR turns the camera on his work as he builds some of his most monumental projects that are an inspiring demonstration of the artist's ability to demolish borders and grant a new, thought-provoking look at reality. The result is an exciting documentary that will capture your imagination.

Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Tuesday | 08.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32
Tuesday | 01.02.22 to Friday | 31.12.32