This event brings together art and film as acts of witness, remembrance, and solidarity at Folkets Hus.
The evening features the screening of a deeply moving film, created by a Gazan filmmaker who fled with his family to Egypt. The story follows a Palestinian family forced from one displacement to another, into exile and into the unknown. “نجونا ولم ننجو (“Survived Not Alive”) reveals the bitter irony of lives uprooted: where those once offering humanitarian aid suddenly find themselves in desperate need of it.
Alongside the film we are having an art exhibition chronicling the lives of a couple still living in Gaza. Through two years of their everyday existence, captured not as statistics but as moments of tenderness, resilience, and endurance, the exhibit resists the tendency to remember Palestinian lives only once they are lost. Instead, it honors and uplifts those who are alive today, celebrating their warmth, their beauty, and their humanity.
Program:
18:00-19:00 – Art exibition with works by Ann Kiernan
19:00-19:30 – Screening of the movie “نجونا ولم ننجو (“Survived Not Alive”)
19:45-20:30 – Online Q&A with the director
This event is not only an artistic expression but also an act of support. Proceeds from the evening will directly assist the filmmaker and his family as they struggle to survive and rebuild their lives in Egypt, to the couple in Gaza, helping them endure the unbearable conditions of life there and supporting their evacuation to safety, and to Gazan families in Gaza if enough funds are raised.
By gathering, watching, and bearing witness, we affirm that Palestinian lives are not only worthy of remembrance in loss, but of celebration and support in life.
This event is made in collaboration with DiEM25 Denmark.
