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Naila and the Uprising + The Silent Protest
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Films
Naila and the Uprising, dir. Julia Bacha, USA / Palestine 2017, 76 min., Arabic, English, Hebrew & French with English subtitles

London Palestine Film Festival 2021

This double-bill focuses on two political movements led by Palestinian women nearly 60 years apart. Mahasen Nasser-Eldin’s The Silent Protest retells the story of the women who protested against the British Mandate’s anti-Arab bias in 1929; while Julia Bacha’s Naila and the Uprising tells of those who mobilised the First Intifada of the late 1980s.
Programme

The Silent Protest
dir. Mahasen Nasser-Eldin, Palestine 2019, 20 min., Arabic with English subtitles
In 1929, some 300 Palestinian women converged on Jerusalem from all over Palestine. Barred from protesting, they held a silent demonstration in a car convoy to object against the British High Commissioner’s bias against Arabs in the Buraq Uprising. Using found footage and archival material, Mahasen Nasser-Eldin retells their story, breathing new life into unseen images and remapping the urban trajectories of this 90-year-old story of defiance.

Naila and the Uprising
dir. Julia Bacha, USA / Palestine 2017, 76 min., Arabic, English, Hebrew & French with English subtitles
When a nationwide uprising breaks out in 1987, student organiser Naila Ayesh must choose between love, family and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women to force the world to recognise the Palestinian right to self-determination. Julia Bacha’s remarkable film follows Ayesh and the women’s struggle through the uprising and into negotiations with Israel, where Palestinians are recognised for the first time on the world stage. Using evocative animation, intimate interviews and archival footage, Naila and the Uprising brings a long-overdue spotlight to the courageous women who shook the Israeli occupation.
 
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