This film is presented during the Week of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People—a tribute to resilience, resistance, and the enduring power of storytelling.
In 1970, at the initiative of Soraya Antonius (Fifth of June Society), Christian Ghazi and Noureddine Chatti met with a number of Arab political figures, especially Palestinians residing in Lebanon.
Ghassan Kanafani, Sadiq Jalal El-Azm, Nabil Shaath and other personalities share their vision of the Palestinian revolution, tracing its history back to the early 20th century. These testimonies describe the numerous strikes and popular protests that took place in Palestine under the Ottoman occupation, followed by the British Mandate and the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948. They enumerate the objectives of the struggle, emphasizing the necessity for a free and democratic Palestine, defended through armed or non-armed struggle by all its citizens, men and women of various affiliations.
Christian Ghazi is a Lebanese director and activist, who was born in Antakya, Turkey in 1938 to a Lebanese father and a French mother. He debuted on cinema screens in the fifties and sixties when he directed The Heroes (1967). During the Lebanese Civil War, he sought to document the atrocities of the conflict through his films, but militias destroyed all his work by burning the negatives, leaving him with only Hundred Faces for a Single Day (1970). He took part in 21 commando operations. Ghazi passed away in 2013 at the age of 75.
