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BRECKE IN PERSON: SOMALIA IN THE PICTURE
Our own (Bernal Heights) international-doc star-shooter is just in from Rwanda to debut his long-in-the-making Somalia masterpiece, the utterly epic quest for the lost film culture of that troubled country. Brecke teams up with the Somali director of the most essential film account of the Dervish liberation story at the core of its memory-sourced. Their film-historical interviews generate multiple nationalistic themes riding a progressively revelatory narrative. Brecke checks in on the current Somali nationals in the Diaspora, all the while—from Mogadishu!–witnessing the production, the destruction, and the determined efforts to finally unearth the crown jewel of 90 years of obscured and obliterated cinema. $14

A Manifestation of the divine feminine, La Mujer Indígena.  Experimental films by radical filmmakers Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, from Mexico, curated by Chuli 1312. This program is invitation into the spirit realms of the sacred and the dead • eroded and blood red • flows like water • a trance • the scattered body parts of the moon goddess Coyolxauhqui •  a sacrifice to the ancestors • an audiovisual offering • a place of protection, mysticism and rebirth.

door 6:30, screening 7 PM

MANNING’s PALESTINE REPORT + ARCHIVAL A FIDAI +
Inaugurating our 4-week History from Below series, here’s the West Coast premiere of a fabled piece of Palestinian cinema, introduced by long-time Mission ally Caitlin Manning. Kamal Aljafari‘s 2024 A Fidai is a multiple-award-winning response to the 1982 looting of of the Palestinian Film Archive in Lebanon by Israeli Defense Forces, in which the maker has ingeniously inserted new material into gaps in the filmstrip itself! He digitally re-positions new figures and grounds as “Counter-Archive“ techniques, towards re-purposing what’s left to restore a people’s memory. In our opening section, Caitin shares 5 contemporary shorts made in Gaza and the West Bank, plus introduces a brisk Report Back from her recent junket to Ramallah, Hebron, and other Wesr Bank locales. $10