Art Under Apartheid - film event
Open: 19:00 - 23:00 hrs
Tickets: € 0
Join your host Samar Abdrabbou for ART UNDER APARTHEID, where we will be showing two documentaries about the Palestinian art of Tatreez - the traditional Palestinian embroidery that weaves together history, stories, and cultural identity - along with a live online discussion/Q&A session with the directors after the screening.
Tatreez is more than decorative stitching, it is a living tradition that connects the past with the present and is a way of preserving rich Palestinian culture. During times of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide, this act of preservation becomes even more important.
Tickets are donations based, with all money going to Made In Palestine, providing Palestinians with direct humanitarian and economic support.
7PM - Doors
7:30PM - What A Pattern Tells
7:45PM - Stitching Palestine
9PM - Q&A with Directors
9:45PM - More discussion in the cafe/bar
What A Pattern Tells - 2025
Dir. Bayan Abuta'ema
Duration - 13m
Starting in a yarn shop, we follow Aseel and Um Qusai in their daily lives, bound together by the threads of tatreez, traditional Palestinian embroidery. The film explores how embroidery intertwines memory, culture, identity, and intergenerational connection.
About the Director
Bayan Abuta'ema is an award-winning Palestinian video journalist currently shooting a feature film about Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Her work focuses on themes of displacement, identity, and collective memory, often rooted in the Palestinian experience.
Stitching Palestine - 2017
Dir. Carol Mansour
Duration - 78m
Twelve Palestinian women sit before us and talk of their life before the Diaspora, of their memories, of their lives and of their identity. Their narratives are connected by the enduring thread of the ancient art of embroidery.
Twelve resilient, determined and articulate women from disparate walks of life: lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects, and politicians stitch together the story of their homeland, of their dispossession, and of their unwavering determination that justice will prevail.
Through their stories, the individual weaves into the collective, yet remaining distinctly personal.
Twelve women, twelve life-spans and stories from Palestine; a land whose position was fixed on the map of the world, but is now embroidered on its face.
About the Director
Carol Mansour is an independent documentary film maker with over 28 years in documentary production who has achieved international recognition and honor for her films, with over seventy worldwide film festival screenings and official selections worldwide.
Her films have won numerous prestigious awards.
Carol's work reflects her concern for human rights and social justice, covering issues such as migrant workers, refugees, environmental issues, mental health, rights of the disabled, war and memory, right to health, and child labor. Carol is Lebanese of Palestinian origin.
About your host Samar Abdrabbou
Samar Abdrabbou is a Palestinian cultural practitioner and human rights advocate, and the founder of Samarkand, a cultural initiative dedicated to preserving and sharing the Palestinian art of Tatreez “traditional embroidery”. She holds a BA in International Law and Human Rights from Bard College and is currently based in Palestine, where she also works as Programme Manager at Made in Palestine (MIP), a non-profit supporting Palestinian communities through humanitarian and economic initiatives. Through Samarkand, Samar works with Palestinian women artisans, research, and storytelling to position Tatreez as a living practice of cultural memory, identity, and resistance.
See some of Samar's art on Instagram @smr.knd
Tickets are donation based, with all money going to Made In Palestine - A grassroots organisation rooted in International Humanitarian Law, dedicated to providing Palestinians with direct humanitarian and economic support.
Learn more about what they do here
https://www.itsmadeinpalestine.org/
