WE PLANTED THE SAGE - Solidarity & Fundraiser Screening for Palestine

Our isolations—in wicked irony— remain one of the key cornerstones of our globalized world. Our differences, what should have been our claim to a so called one-world in relation, have instead become the key for colonial bodies to wage wars and oppress us. This has in turn kept our freedom struggles isolated.

How do we realize, imagine, and nurture our interconnected revolutions? How do we whisper Glissant, Kanafani, and Biko into the ears of the generations to come? How do we make our songs echo across the oceans that separate us? From the hands of the Pan-Africanist Congress members to the Palestinians displaced from their land — we see the cyclical nature of events embedded within the films in this program. Together these films offer strategies of reclamation and resistance. They call upon us to urgently come together and to breathe our imagined world into existence.

Join us at KZNSA for an afternoon of film screenings and live music as we collectively think through ideas of transnational solidarity and resistance. All proceeds go to Gift of the Givers to support on the ground in Palestine.

Featuring films by Mona Benyamin, Razan AlSalah & Members of the Pan Africanist National Congress.

Live music by Tharan Pillay

Poster by Nicola Harris

Curated by Advik Beni

Moonscape (2020)

by Mona Benyamin

Moonscape is a short film which takes the form of a music video for a ballad/middle of the road song, performed as a duet between a male and female singer, in Arabic. The song traces the story of a man called Dennis M. Hope, who claimed ownership of the Moon in 1980 and thus founded the Lunar Embassy – a company that sells land on a variety of planets and Moons, and makes a connection between his story and that of the director's – a young Palestinian woman living under the Israeli occupation, longing to end the misery of her people in any way possible.

Phela-Ndaba (End of Dialogue) (1970)

by Members of the Pan-Africanist Congress

In 1970, members of the Pan Africanist Congress secretly documented South Africa’s apartheid regime and smuggled the footage out of the country, with the disturbing results causing an international sensation.

Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba (2017)

by Razan Alsalah

This doc-fiction is a (re)construction, a (re)collection of the memory of returning to Haifa. It is an imaginary memory of retuning to Haifa. Razan AlSalah is imagining her grandmother was able to return to Haifa when she was still alive, through Google Streetview, which today is the only way she could see Palestine, the only way Razan can see Palestine.