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:34862@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250731T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250731T213000 DTSTAMP:20250801T052302Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/michel-khleifis-fertile-memory-1980 -a-landmark-of-palestinian-cinema-4/ SUMMARY:Michel Khleifi's FERTILE MEMORY (1980) – A Landmark of Palestinia n Cinema DESCRIPTION:LOS ANGLES\, CA\n\nAs part of their July series "US Tour\," 7th House is proud to present a rare screening of Palestinian filmmaker Mich el Khleifi's gorgeous\, meditative\, and deeply affecting landmark film F ERTILE MEMORY (1980). The sole film in 7th House's series not set on Ame rican soil\, it nevertheless reverberates with our nation's contemporary i mpact abroad. The first full length film to be shot within the disputed P alestinian West Bank "Green Line\," FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Khleifi\, acclaimed director of the Cannes Film Festival triumph\, WE DDING IN GALILEE. Lyrically blending both documentary and narrative elem ents\, Khleifi skillfully and lovingly crafts a portrait of two Palestinia n women whose individual struggles both define and transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives.\n\n \;\n\nGrandmothe r Romia fights an unending legal battle with the Zionist authorities who c onfiscated her ancestral land soon after the Israeli occupation in 1947. W ith 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 Khal ifeh\, a divorced novelist and young mother living in the West Bank\, stru ggles to maintain a modern role for herself within her increasingly intole rant occupation community. Representing both contemporary Arab womanhood a nd vanguard Palestinian conscience\, Sahar must balance the changes in her world after the Six Day War with the changes in herself after achieving p ersonal emancipation.\n\n \;\n\nWith painterly flair\, Khleifi elevate s the everyday details of Romia's and Sahar's lives to a timelessness as i rresistible as the hauntingly beautiful desert landscape they fight for.  Whether in a tearful lullaby or a sensuously performed lover's lament\, th e women of FERTILE MEMORY lend tender and powerful voices to their peopl e's chorus of outrage. Michel Khleifi's poetic and powerful film puts a di stinctively feminine expression on the ordinarily violent and male dominat ed face of Palestinian resistance.\n\n \;\n\nDir. Michel Khleifi\, 19 80\, 99 mins\, Palestine\, Arabic w/ English subtitles\, Unrated\, Color\ , Digital.\n\n \;\n\n \;\nTicket price: $12 (in person event only) \nPlease email events@prs.org or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 025/08/Screen-Shot-2025-08-01-at-1.22.01-AM.png LOCATION:Philosophical Research Society\, 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard\, Los An gles\, California\, 90027\, United States GEO:34.113121;-118.277651 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3910 Los Feliz Boulevard\, Los Angles\, California\, 90027\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE =Philosophical Research Society:geo:34.113121,-118.277651 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR