Party and Gala premier for Speed Sister a film about the first women only racing team in Palestine.
FILM: SPEED SISTERS
Revving their way through the male dominated Palestinian streetcar-racing scene, the Speed Sisters have been heralded as the Middle East’s first all-women racing team. Independent, determined and always on the move, they have deftly charted their own course through the pressures of social expectations, family dynamics, community politics and an ongoing military occupation.
Despite a tangle of roadblocks and checkpoints, a thriving street car racing scene has emerged in the West Bank. Held at improvised tracks – a vegetable market, an old helicopter pad, a security academy – the races offer a release from the pressures and uncertainties of life under military occupation. The fanfare and rivalry between cities brings spectators out in droves, lining rooftops and leaning over barricades to snap photos of their favorite drivers and to catch final times on the scoreboard.
Marah, Betty, Noor, Mona and Maysoon – have joined the ranks of dozens of male drivers, competing against each other for the title, for bragging rights for their hometown, and to prove that women can go head to head with the guys.
EXHIBITION: BODY OF VIOLENCE av Malon Bernalt http://www.bernaltmalin.com/#/bodyofviolence/
Body of Violence is focused on humans voices about war. It contains interviews and photographs from different areas in the West Bank, such as; Kafr Qaddum, Ramallah and Dheishea Refugee Camp in Betlehem. By photographing objects from palestinians daily lives such as a hooded sweater, remains from a stack of burned tyres, or a pair of sandals; it shows how military violence is affecting civilian people and their lives. The objects are photographed with a black cloth in the background; by doing this Body of Violence offers new ways of portraying people living under conflict.
TIDER:
19:00 The door opens - drink ticket for everyone before 20:00!
20:00 FILM: SPEED SISTERS
21.20 talk with the director Amber Fares and The Rally Prinsess Annie Seel
21:40 till 01:00 PARTY and LIVE gig with JJ https://www.facebook.com/jjswedenofficial/info/
LIVE MUSIC: JJ https://www.facebook.com/jjswedenofficial/info/
EXTRA: More info soon
FEE: 80 SKR (60 SKR for students and seniors) 18 years old
LOCATION: Upplandsgatan 81, 113 44 Stockholm
AVALIBILLITY: Grund floor, big WC and space for weelchair.
Doc Lounge Stockholm is a screening network for documentary film that is housed by LAIKA in Hornshuset. Carefully chosen Documentarys is screened with art, music and talks and during the nights the kitchen and bar is open. Sometimes Doc Lounge Stockholm do pop ups in specific and challangeing enviorments and guests festivals and museums. We also arrange youth screenings with directors in focus at libarys, youthcenters and schools around Stockholm. For more info - visit doclounge.se/stockholm
Speed Sisters is screened in coperation with Svenska Postkodlotteriet, Svenska Filminstitutet, Stockholms Stad, Stockholms Läns Landsting och ABF.
