Movie Nights at Moments Co-op FUNDRAISER: "Leila and the Wolves" (1984)

Nostalgic for Nothing Cinema is excited to present the next Movie Night at Moments Co-op, featuring Leila and the Wolves (1984), a film by Heiny Srour.

“This film is based on actual events which are part of the collective memory of the Lebanese and Palestinian people.” Thus announces Lebanese writer-director Heiny Srour’s sole foray into non-documentary, a paean to the lineage of Arab women who took up arms in the struggle for Palestinian liberation. The eponymous Leila (Nabila Zeitouni) is the film’s fulcrum and narrator, a London-based Lebanese woman contributing to an exhibition on occupied Palestine. When a male colleague attributes the absence of women in the show to a lack of their political involvement, Leila defiantly portals through a 20th-century chronology of the region, each stop revealing a resistance movement shored up by a network of female insurgents. Srour, whose groundbreaking 1974 documentary The Hour of Liberation Has Arrivedwas the first film by an Arab woman in competition at Cannes, braids together reenactment, archival footage, mythology, and song to fashion a striking corrective to the “official”—i.e. patriarchal—history of anti-colonial unrest.

Date:

Sunday, May 4th

Location:

Moments Co-op

410 13th St, Oakland

Doors: 6pm

Show: 6:30pm

RSVP in link/Space limited

Suggested donation of $5-20 at the door, but NOTAFLOF (No one turned away for lackof funds) We accept cash, PayPal, or donation directly to our GoFundMe.

MASKS REQUIRED!

LOW SCENT / NO SCENT SPACE - To attend in person, we ask that everyone comes completely free of fragranced body and clothing products. For more information on low scent / no scent spaces, please refer to our neighbors at East Bay Meditation Center on fragrance free space at the link here.

Accessibility / Space information:

- MASKS ARE ALWAYS REQUIRED, extra masks are available
-Closed captions are included (when available)
- low / no scent space
- located at 410 13th St Oakland, near 12th St. BART station
- Indoor capacity: 15-20 people maximum
- 1st floor is wheelchair accessible, front door width of 36in (front door gate-base sticks out a bit, can make navigating into the store require assistance)
- Gender neutral bathroom on 2nd floor, up a flight of stairs 36in wide (14 steps exactly)

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