Samen - Cinemini • Nederlands Filmhuis Denhaag

Collectif Faire-part, Turab Shah and Arwa Aburawa,Oleksandra Pletenetska

Glued & Screwed #34

The third edition in a series of three programs titled Unearthing the Archives! We will embark on a journey set out to inspire and mobilize.

Activation! is the third and last edition in a series of three programs titled Unearthing the Archives!, a deep-dive into the world of archival films. The first edition features films where the archive takes central stage and the filmmaker intervenes through editing. The second edition features intimate stories and personal insights.

This time around mobilizing is the goal, covering intense and powerful subject matter, the archive is used to inspire, and to activate. These films are made to spread a message of awareness.

Present at the screening will be Collectif Fair-part (BE/CD) for a conversation after the screening with Glodi Mbwete, co-founder of Wij Zijn Congolezen.

Film programme :

Speech for a Melting Statue
Collectif Faire-part | Belgium | 2023 | 10 minutes

In June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to protest police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed some demonstrators might take down the statue of colonial king Leopold II in a nearby square. While the sculpture still stands, an optimistic poet prepares her speech for the day it will be removed.

The Park (Dancing on the Rubble of Empire)
Turab Shah, Arwa Aburawa | United Kingdom | 2025 | 34 minutes

The Park (Dancing on the Rubble of Empire) is a personal meditation on the intimate ways our lives are shaped by ongoing colonial histories, making sense of this knowing and finding joy. Centered around the filmmakers’ local park, this film is a celebration of London and the resilience of migrant communities that have shaped the city from its beginnings. It’s about the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-25 and a line which stretches all the way from then to today. It’s about Palestine, which sits along this colonial continuum, and a park full of dancing, BBQs, birthday parties and joy. Through a hybrid form that combines documentary, archival footage, and direct animation this film meditates on the colonial remnants lodged in our lives and asks what it means to celebrate, play, and belong amid the rubble of empire.

(Re)covered Memory
Oleksandra Pletenetska | Ukraine | 2025 | 11 minutes

A group of activists is fighting to preserve a historical landmark in the center of Kyiv from a developer. Their struggle is an exact parallel to the fight for memory that took place a century ago, when the soviet government attempted to erase Ukrainian identity.

Regisseur Collectif Faire-part, Turab Shah and Arwa Aburawa,Oleksandra Pletenetska
Land België, Oekraïne, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Taal Engels
Ondertiteling Engels
Speelduur 120 min

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