“SHASHAT’s Women’s Film Festival in Palestine” is not a traditional film festival. Its objectives and the presence of films and guests are seen as an impetus to public awareness of women’s creativity and the implications of representations of women. The festival will take place from
September 22 to September 29, 2005 in three cities –
Ramallah, Nablus and Bethlehem.
The festival will focus its outreach to the general public and the Palestinian filmmaking community in general as well as the woman’s filmmaking community in particular. It will be proactive in concentrating special outreach to non-traditional movie-going audiences such as university students, refugee camp dwellers and high school children in order to expose them to women’s cinema and women’s point-of-view. We hope to stimulate public discussion of the themes of the films.
