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A State of Passion with Palestine Cinema Days
2024
|Documentary
|90'
by Carol Mansour and Muna Khaldi
[Palestine, Lebanon]
This November 2nd, in solidarity with Palestine Cinema Days Around the World, the Athens Palestine Film Festival dedicates its evening screening to A State of Passion by Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidi.
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Free admission
Synopsis
A feature-length documentary film by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. After 43 days of horror, working round the clock and under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance, hailed as a hero everywhere.
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Biography
Carol Mansour is an independent documentary filmmaker with over 25 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-Canadian of Palestinian origin.
Muna Khalidi holds a Ph.D. in health policy and planning, with over 34 years of experience in the social and health development fields in Lebanon and the region. She has worked with various development and health organizations assisting them to develop strategic plans and to design and develop programs.
In 2011, she started collaborating with Carol Mansour on the research and production of documentary films dealing with issues of social justice and human rights, bringing her experience from the academic, public, private, and NGO sectors into the documentary-making field.
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