Jibal is a not-for-profit association that promotes social and environmental justice in Lebanon. Its work focuses on ensuring the fair and equitable distribution of environmental and social benefits - and burdens - through collective organization, accessible knowledge, and regenerative principles.

One of Jibal’s initiatives, Land Stories, is a storytelling project centered on Lebanon and the wider region. All stories portray people and the crops they grow, from wheat and apples to citrus and aubergine, on land that was central to the beginnings of world agricultural history. 

Jibal will present their project Land Stories and share their specific stories and their methodologies.

The opening night of the Aswat Festival, co-organized by IFPO and IRD en Méditerranée, will be hosted in the shared auditorium at AIF. 
This event will showcase a segment titled 'Discovering – Fictionalising', featuring a selection of film screenings presented by May Ziadé and Anaïs Farine.

𝗡𝗲𝗼 𝗡𝗮𝗵𝗱𝗮
 A film by May Ziadé  
 UK | 2023  
 13 min | English, with Arabic subtitles  

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
 A film by Mahasen Nasser-Eldin  
 Palestine | 2012  
 22 min | Arabic, with English subtitles  

𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝗳 𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗘𝘆𝗲 #𝟭
 A film by Rania Stephan  
 Lebanon | 2015  
 31 min | Arabic, with English subtitles  

The Aswat Festival is a space for meeting and training, sharing experiences, skills, and ideas, dedicated to alternative scientific creation and writing in and for the Arab world.

To view Aswat Festival’s full programme, please visit the IFPO website.

𝗹𝗶𝗾𝗮’𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗵𝗿𝗶 𝟲 | 

For this month's liqa’a shahri we are participating in Palestine Cinema Days Around the World 2025.

Join us for the screenings of:

The Dupes (1972, 107’) by Tewfik Saleh at 2:30pm
The Dupes, one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian question, is a stark and stately black-and-white film that traces the destinies of three different men brought together by their dispossession, their despair, and their hope for a better future.

Screening of The Dupes is in collaboration with Nadi Lekol Nas.

When I First Saw You (2012, 98’) by Annemarie Jacir at 4:30pm
Jordan, 1967. Thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father, Tarek, 11, and his mother, Ghaydaa, are placed in “temporary” camps. Finding difficulty adjusting to life in the camps and longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek seeks a way out.

Palestine Cinema Days is a global initiative by Film Lab Palestine, held annually on the sombre anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. If you missed The Dupes, you can catch it at T Marbouta at 6:30 PM on November 1, as well as other screenings on November 2, 3, and 4. Check their page for the detailed program. 
 

T Marbouta's Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tmarbouta/

Palestine Film Lab Website: https://flp.ps/node/852