Film Screening & Discussion | Where the Olive Tree Weeps
Date and Time
Aug 7, 2024 6:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Aug 7, 2024 6:00 pm
450K
Join us for the screening of the film Where the Olive Trees Weep, sponsored by the Sumud Podcast and hosted by Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC. This film 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 will then have a short Q&A with Ashira Darwish, the film's executive producer, who will guide us on a somatic journey of Ashira Active Meditation to acknowledge our emotions, hold space for grief, and build Sumud and resilience in the mind and body.
Ashira Ali Darwish is the founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing, a trauma therapy project in Palestine. She is known for pioneering Sufi active meditation to help people suffering from continuous trauma. This type of active meditation draws its roots from ancestral and Indigenous knowledge. Her personal journey of healing from full-body paralysis with a severed spinal cord in 2012 has given her a deep insight into the process of recovery and healing. This unique perspective allows her to offer a highly specialized and culturally sensitive approach to trauma healing.
Ashira Ali Darwish - Executive Producer
About the film
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 witness Dr. Gabor Maté offering trauma-healing work for a group of women who have been 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?
Get Tickets: https://kinema.com/events/where-olive-trees-weep-1zstbj
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