FID Marseille, Sunday July 13th 2025
AGORA : "Palestine as a starting point"
What imaginaries, what works, what practices could lead us to produce traces of singularities and force history to change its course? Open discussion among filmmakers and artists (including Narimane Mari, Fatma Chérif, Ghassan Salhab, Carolina Adriazola, José Luis Sepúlveda, Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson, Catherine Libert), students from FID Campus
and audience members. The conversation is mainly in French, with some interventions in Arabic and Spanish (translated into French).
SOME STRINGS is a collection of unprecedented cinematic gestures. It finds its origin in what stains the screens of History: in Palestine, where poet and professor Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike along with seven members of his family on December 6, 2023.
His final poem, IF I MUST DIE, written between earth and sky five weeks before his death, calls for the creation of a kite from bits of string. The kite has become an object of resistance, its strings now held by artists and filmmakers around the world—each offering a perspective on one of the darkest moments of the 21st century.
In 2024, FID Marseille unveiled the very first films from this project. Since then, SOME STRINGS has been shown in over 50 countries. This year, the festival presents the complete collection of works created by more than 100 artists and filmmakers from a wide range of geographical, artistic and social backgrounds.
Thank you all for the generous participation!
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Recording, editing and mix: Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson, for firefly frequencies
