Tamer Nafar: Musician, actor, and activist. Member of the Lyd-based Hip Hop group DAM. Star of Junction 48, fiction film based in Lyd. Hannah Mermelstein: Founder of Librarians and Archivists for Palestine. Dina Dahmash: descendant of Khalil Dahmash who built the mosque where the massacre occurred in Lyd. Lamia Dahmash: descendant of Khalil Dahmash who
The Pink Floyd frontman to become the executive producer of a new film by Sarah Friedland and +972 writer Rami Younis on the tragic history of one of Palestine’s most important cities. By Yali (Yael) Marom, in +972 Read full article.
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On the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, Palestinian journalist and filmmaker Rami Younis shares the city of Lyd’s past, present, and a possible alternative future. by Ghousoon Bisharat and Thomas Dallal in Mondoweiss Read full article.
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LYD is invited to pitch at the Cannes Film Festival 2018 Doc Corner as part of the first-ever Palestinian Film Delegation to Cannes sponsored by the Palestine Film Institute. Read more.
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LYD raised more than $40,000 from almost 300 backers who are excited to support the film’s post-production. Read more. We are still raising money for finishing costs and distribution. For information on how to support this project, contact us!
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To understand what’s happening in cities like Lyd/Lod, you have to look back in time. For today’s newsletter, Editor-in-Chief Arielle Angel spoke with filmmakers Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland about their documentary Lyd. By Arielle Angel in Jewish Currents Read full interview.
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(Director/Producer) is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer and journalist from Lyd. He is a former Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. He was as a main contributor to the online magazine +972 and served as editor and a member of the founding collective of its Hebrew sister site, “local call”, a journalistic project designed to challenge
(Director/cinematographer) is a documentary filmmaker and media artist based in New York. Friedland’s works have screened widely in the US and abroad and have been broadcast nationally on PBS. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Paul Newman Foundation,, the Ford Foundation, NYSCA, the LABA House of Study,
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(Editor) is the editor of the Academy Award nominated film Omar by Hany Abu-Assad. In addition to Omar Salman has edited numerous fiction and documentary feature films that have screened at prestigious festivals including Cannes and IDFA. He is represented by Lux Artists. Salman is passionate about working on films that tell nuanced and artistic