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This November, Falasteen Film Society Otautahi warmly invites you our final showing of the 2025 year: Najwa Najjar’s feature length debut, ‘Pomegranates and Myrrh’ (2008). When her husband is abducted by Israel and held in administrative detention, Palestinian woman Kamar finds herself anchored by her love of dance and the friendship of her new dance instructor. Starring Ashraf Farah, and heavy hitters Yasmine al-Massri, Ali Suliman and Hiam Abbass.
? Sunday, 30th November
⏰ 7pm
?WEA Hall, 59 Gloucester Street
Snacks and refreshments will be available for free.
Admission fee is $20 per person. All proceeds will be donated to verified families in Gaza to support their survival. We’d love to see you there!
‘Pomegranates and Myrrh is a solid exploration of the walls — internal and external — built up under conditions of extraordinary stress. It’s also about struggle and liberation, both on the personal and political levels. […] Najjar plays with formula more than conforms to it. […] While the choreography is excellent, it is Najjar’s framing of the dancing that makes the scenes interesting. A compelling sequence where Kamar and Kais dance in and out of a darkened frame is as much about dance bringing light as it is the characters’ struggle with their emotions.’
Jimmy Johnson, The Electronic Intifada
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Event Venue
WEA Canterbury Workers' Educational Association, 59 Gloucester Street,Christchurch, New Zealand
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