Where Olive Trees Wee (Maurizio Benazzo & Zaya Ralitza Benazzo, 2024)
🔥The one where we speak about struggles🔥
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We hope this email fin—nope, almost got you! 🦊
We hope you had a great May 1st — and that it gave you a nice little boost of strength to keep up the anticapitalist fight at work!
Speaking about struggles and fights, this month’s screening at Cinema Politica is going to be Where Olive Trees We, a 2024 production of Maurizio Benazzo and Zaya Ralitza Benazzo that highlights trauma, healing, and resilience through the voices of inspiring individuals resisting Israeli oppression and fighting for a liberated Palestine.
You can learn more on the documentary’s website, but for now here is the trailer!
Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.
We follow, among others, Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. We also witness Dr. Gabor Maté offer trauma-healing work to a group of women who were tortured in Israeli prisons.
Ancient landscapes bear deep scars, having witnessed the brutal reality of ancestral land confiscation, expulsions, imprisonment, home demolitions, water deprivation, and denial of basic human rights. Yet, through the veil of oppression, we catch a glimpse of resilience—deep roots that have carried the Palestinian people through decades of darkness and shattered lives.
This emotional journey bares the humanity of the oppressed while grappling with the question: what makes the oppressor so ruthlessly blind to its own cruelty?
The documentary is in Arabic and English, with English subtitles.
…see you there! 🎬
📆 Friday May 16th
⏰ The screening starts at 7pm, doors are open from 6pm
📌 Veranstaltungsraum at Amerlingshaus (Stiftgasse 8, 1070), Vienna
❗Info on accesibility:
The “Veranstaltungsraum” is located on the ground floor—you can access it through the inner courtyard by turning on the left. It’s barrier-free.
We still have a stock of FFP2 masks, but we kindly ask you to bring yours if you can. We will decide before the screening on whether the masks are a prerequisite for anyone joining the event. If wearing them is important to you, please don't hesitate to contact us via DM on instagram or via email wien@cinemapolitica.org. You can also reach out the very same day, so “kein Stress!”, as they say in German❗
💸 Entrance is, as usual, free — conscious donations are always welcome!
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