A FEELING GREATER THAN LOVE
By Mary Jirmanus Saba, Lebanon
Saturday May 7th, 7-9PM (Doors open 6:30PM)
Dreams of popular revolution, erased by civil war. A young girl martyred at a factory strike in Beirut in 1972 - her identity shrouded in mystery. A Feeling Greater than Love (2017) is a meditation on revolution, cinema and their possibilities, past and present.
In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s, which held the promise of a popular revolution and, with it, of women’s emancipation were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in archival footage from Lebanon’s militant cinema tradition, the film reconstructs the spirit of that revolt, asking of the past how we might transform the present.
The screening will be followed by a moderated Q&A, via zoom, with the filmmaker.
Registration required.
MARY JIRMANUS SABA
Mary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer and filmmaker. Her new work, Cinema, Against the Banks, explores the ongoing financial crisis and popular uprising in Lebanon through a set of online floating fragments of dismantled security cameras, parking meters, and ATM machines.
THE TORONTO PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) is a volunteer-run, non-profit organization dedicated to bringing Palestinian cinema, music, cuisine and art to GTA audiences. TPFF was conceived in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba.
