Beyond the Frontlines: an award-winning documentary about Palestinian humanity

Justice for Palestine and Aotearoa Healthcare Workers for Palestine present Alexandra Dols' award-winning documentary about the impacts of dehumanising violence on Palestinian people. This screening is intended to provide an antidote to the inflammatory anti-Palestinian programming decisions of Doc Edge.

In an environment where language of 'objectivity' and 'neutrality' is used to prop up colonial structures, we are proud to screen a documentary that refuses to buy into this framing. Embark on a journey across Palestine alongside Palestinian psychiatrist Dr. Samah Jabr and discover the resistance and resilience of a people affected by the invisible wounds of war and occupation.

Check out the trailer here.

Net revenue from tickets and donations will be donated to the Gaza Mental Health Foundation: https://www.gazamentalhealth.org/

Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start.

Film is 1 hour, 53 minutes so will finish approximately 8pm, including welcome and introduction.

"The film is brave because it does not claim to be "balanced" through positioning itself an equal distance from the occupier and the occupied of Palestine. Instead, it sheds light on the Palestinian experience and point of view: experiences and views which are usually silenced, distorted, or vilified by mainstream media. The film does not turn away from people who are labeled "controversial" and thus to be avoided and ignored. This film brings together a diversity of interviewees whose strong voices do not fade into an all-too-common passive submission to power and dominance. The interviewees differ ideologically among themselves yet a reunited in their striving for liberation."

Dr. Samah Jabr

“Dr. Samah Jabr is a wise and thoughtful woman. She reflects on the subtle, devastating effect on the Palestinian people of years of brutal occupation. Alexandra Dols’ film shares her insights with us, generous, humane and deeply disturbing. Please see this film.”

Ken Loach