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  Kings and Extras. Digging For A Palestinian Homeland
Director: Azza El-Hassan
Running Time: 62 minutes
Germany, Palestine 2004
Post Screening Discussion With Director
   
  The films of the PO Media Unit were supposed to show a self-determined image of Palestinian reality – and they went missing during the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. In a ‘road movie’ from Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, the director Azza El-Hassan follows the contradicting and confusing clues of the lost archive. The increasingly absurd search finally leads her to a martyr’s graveyard, where the films are said to be buried – no one will dig here. After a series of dead ends, Azza is confronted with new clues and starts to construct her own story. Myths, life stories and lies, and the personal effects of defeat and loss are revealed with an insiders contradictory sense of belonging and opposition.
   
  Screening: 24 October at 7.15 p.m. Old Fire Station