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The University of Valladolid hosts this week's first Film and Documentary Palestinian

VALLADOLID, 21 Nov. ( EUROPA PRESS) - The Classroom Mergelina University of Valladolid (UVA) will hold between Monday and Friday's first Documentary Film and Palestinians, which will screen 11 films, including short films and long life.
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The Exhibition is organized by the University of Valladolid, through the Department of Cooperation, and SODEPAZ-Badamil, with the collaboration of the Platform for Solidarity with Palestine and the collective Valladolid Files UFO (Unidentified Video Monitoring).
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Entry to all screenings, to be held at 19.30 pm, except Thursday which will be an hour earlier, is free to full capacity, told Europa Press the organizers.
The aim of the exhibition is to analyze the situation of subjugation and oppression of the Palestinian people from different perspectives. Thus, the documentaries deal with issues as diverse as the expulsion of Palestinians from their land by the State of Israel since 1948, relations between Israel and the United States and its impact on the conflict, the role of the media, the situation Gaza Strip, the daily life of Palestinians under military occupation or the historical background.
The cycle will be attended by directors of some of the documentaries selected after screening to engage in a conversation with the public.
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A attending the opening day Maryse Gargour Palestinian filmmaker, editor of the Arabic-speaking Earth ', a film selected to open the Exhibition. 'The earth speaks Arabic' addresses the so-called "ethnic cleansing of Palestine", which involved the expulsion of 750,000 people from their land and destroying over 500 villages. Through painstaking work of historical reconstruction, Maryse Gargour shows that the expulsion was carefully planned by the Zionist movement since the late nineteenth century.
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Gargour The documentary has won several awards including the Prize of the Mediterranean Centre of Communications Audiovisual, Best Film Award of the Arab Union of Strings and Television Stations and Special Prize at the annual awards Algerian Television. Maryse Gargour
born in the Palestinian city of Jaffa. Journalist and filmmaker, has worked as a correspondent in Beirut French Radio and Television International Council for Cinema and Television of Unesco, among other professional duties. In addition to 'The Land speaks Arabic, "has directed other documentaries such as' Une Palestinienne face of Palestine', 'Jaffa, the mienne', 'Le Pays de Blanche' and 'Loin de Falastin', all with the situation in Palestine as central axis.
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For the closing ceremony, Friday, November 26, is expected to attend Anne Giralt (Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1978), Director of 'About Home' (On the home), work chosen to close the shows. In 'About Home', the author travels to a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon in the hands of Suha and Ahmed, two young men who are the second generation of the camp, established in 1948 after the expulsion of Palestinians from their land. Ahmed Suha and his country have only seen on television. The film examines the frustration, hopelessness and struggle for survival of the refugees, perhaps the most vulnerable part of the conflict.