Ein Abend mit Film-Screening, Live-Musik, Gedichten und Diskussion präsentiert vom Gaza Komitee.

"We can’t be free as women unless we’re in a free country. And even if we are free of the occupation, we can’t know freedom as long as we are subjugated in our own society." - Sama Aweidah, activist, Naila and the Uprising

The film Naila and the Upristing revolves around the tragic and remarkable story of Naila Ayesh, an active student organizer in Gaza in the 1980s. Naila has spent years building the infrastructure for economic independence for women and self-sufficiency for Palestinians under Israeli occupation. She is pregnant when first arrested in 1986. Using evocative under-camera animation, intimate interviews, and exclusive archival footage, this film brings out of anonymity the courageous women who shook the Israeli occupation and put Palestinians on the map for the first time. Most images of the First Intifada paint an incomplete picture from a law-and-order frame. This film tells the story that history overlooked - of an unbending non- violent women‘s movement at the head of Palestine‘s struggle for freedom.