The second edition of Cinema Palestine Bangladesh concluded on Saturday with a performance by Palestinian artist Salma Shaka at 101, an art space at Gulshan in Dhaka.
Curated by Parsa Sanjana Sajid, the festival comprising film screening, discussions and performances at different locations across Dhaka was inaugurated on December 12.
Vienna-based multimedia artist and researcher raised between Palestine, Cyprus, and the UAE, Salma Shaka staged a performance titled Resistance Ritual that showcased connections between herbalism and spiritual Muslim practices.聽
The performance aimed to understand the essence of divine protection, personal resistance, and the urgent fight for justice through culminating a defiant call for the liberation of Palestine and all colonised lands in the world.
The festival also screened documentaries Slingshot Hip Hop and Life Is Still Not Ours, short film Blown by the Wind, films Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another 鈥� Rehearsal, A Fidai Film, The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived and Larissa Sansour鈥檚 science fiction trilogy at different venues including Bengal Foundation, Korail, Shala Neighborhood Art Space, Central Shaheed Minar and Chitrashala Auditorium at Shilpakala Academy.
鈥楾he platform arranges different mediums of art shows to express solidarity with the Palestine people. Israel-run genocide not only kills people of palatine but also demolishes their cultural references. Cinema Palestine Bangladesh is a small attempt to promote palatine culture,鈥� said Parsa Sanjana Sajid.聽聽聽聽