South Philly Autonomous Cinema is a collectively-run organization screening leftist, queer, and rare films in South Philadelphia.
Featured Screening
Three Shorts For Palestine
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South Philly Autonomous Cinema and Philly Socialists continue their Palestine screening series with another evening of film, solidarity, and fundraising, this time with three recent short films exploring Palestinian struggle and liberation. The Battle of Empty Stomachs (2024, dir. Diana al-Halabi): Based on research and interviews with both Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers, this absurdist yet realist film stages a dialogue between the director and her mother tongue that centers on a single question: what do we know about hunger? In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2016, dir. Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind) resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity. we would be freer (بنكون اكتر احرار) is a short film reflecting on the relationship between native plants and peoples living under settler-colonialism. Weaving between the voices of two women, one from the Mohawk community of Kahnawá:ke and the other an internally displaced refugee in Ramallah, we would be freer invites you to contemplate the role of the sumac plant in two occupied lands that lie far apart. Doors at 6:30 pm. This event is all ages. Masks are requested to be worn except when eating or drinking and will be supplied at the door.
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