BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:34788@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250731T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250731T213000 DTSTAMP:20250729T023805Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/michel-khleifis-fertile-memory-1980 -a-landmark-of-palestinian-cinema-2/ SUMMARY:Michel Khleifi's FERTILE MEMORY (1980) – A Landmark of Palestinia n Cinema DESCRIPTION:LOS ANGELES\, CA\n\nAs part of their July series "US Tour\," 7t h House is proud to present a rare screening of Palestinian filmmaker Mic hel Khleifi's gorgeous\, meditative\, and deeply affecting landmark film  FERTILE MEMORY (1980). The sole film in 7th House's series not set on Am erican soil\, it nevertheless reverberates with our nation's contemporary impact abroad. The first full length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank "Green Line\," FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Khleifi\, acclaimed director of the Cannes Film Festival triumph\, W EDDING IN GALILEE. Lyrically blending both documentary and narrative ele ments\, Khleifi skillfully and lovingly crafts a portrait of two Palestini an women whose individual struggles both define and transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives.\n\n \;\n\nGrandmoth er Romia fights an unending legal battle with the Zionist authorities who confiscated her ancestral land soon after the Israeli occupation in 1947. With her family scattered all over the globe while she works in an Israeli factory\, Romia doggedly maintains a dignity and passion that for her are the difference between mere subsistence and tenacious survival. Sahar Kha lifeh\, a divorced novelist and young mother living in the West Bank\, str uggles to maintain a modern role for herself within her increasingly intol erant occupation community. Representing both contemporary Arab womanhood and vanguard Palestinian conscience\, Sahar must balance the changes in he r world after the Six Day War with the changes in herself after achieving personal emancipation.\n\n \;\n\nWith painterly flair\, Khleifi elevat es the everyday details of Romia's and Sahar's lives to a timelessness as irresistible as the hauntingly beautiful desert landscape they fight for.  Whether in a tearful lullaby or a sensuously performed lover's lament\, the women of FERTILE MEMORY lend tender and powerful voices to their peo ple's chorus of outrage. Michel Khleifi's poetic and powerful film puts a distinctively feminine expression on the ordinarily violent and male domin ated face of Palestinian resistance.\n\n \;\n\nDir. Michel Khleifi\, 1980\, 99 mins\, Palestine\, Arabic w/ English subtitles\, Unrated\, Colo r\, Digital.\n\n \;\n\nADVISORY DISCLAIMER\n\nWith some exception\, Th e Philosophical Research Society’s 7th House Screenings does not typical ly provide advisory warnings about potentially upsetting content or subjec t matter\, as sensitivities are particular to each viewer. Please be sure to read event listings\, research on the web\, or visit Common Sense Medi a\, IMDb\, and DoesTheDogDie.com for thorough info on content and age-a ppropriateness. 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