In collaboration with ASEED

THE WANTED 18 + Q&A with local activists
Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan | 2014 | Canada, France, Palestina | 75’ | EN subs

The wanted 18 is an award winning documentary by filmmakers Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan that tells the story of how 18 cows were declared a threat to Israel's national security during the first Intifada. Instead of following a narrative of sheer pain and struggle, the film also attends to the preservation of community spirit among the Palestinian residents amidst the enduring national crisis of land sovereingnty and provokes critical reflections on the more-than-human relationalities in the context of long-term social change and resistance.

We invite you to an evening where we come to learn about and appreciate the creative forms of resistance adopted by the Palestinian during the first Intifada in 1987. After the screening, we will have a discussion together with local activists in solidarity with Palestine who will talk about the repression and silencing they face. Collectively we further contemplate on new manners of approaching political resistance and social change. We will explore conceptually together the possibilities of activism, intervention and solidarity as residents of a first-world country.