A Stone’s Throw

Synopsis

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice from land and labour. He is displaced from his birthplace Haifa to Beirut, and again to Zirku Island, to work on this offshore oil platform in the Arab Gulf. "A Stone’s Throw" trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and labour in the region and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. The film rehearses a history of the Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, the oil labourers of Haifa blow up a BP pipeline.

Director Biography

Razan AlSalah is a Palestinian artist and teacher based in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal. Her work has screened at Art of the Real, Prismatic Ground, RIDM, HotDocs, Yebisu, Melbourne, Glasgow and Beirut International, Cinema Days Palestine, Sharjah Film Forum, IZK Institute for Contemporary Art and Sursock Museum.