Benefit Film Screening for Lebanon

Join us for a benefit screening for Lebanon of 3 short films that recount poetically visceral stories of Palestinian and Lebanese dispossession and exile caused by the Israeli occupation. After the viewing, stick around for a grounding conversation between Rawya El Chab and Rami Dinnawi. This event will be held on Thursday, May 7th from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at Le Petit Versailles Garden in NYC (247 E 2nd St, New York, NY 10009). Suggested donation $25. If you can’t attend and would like to donate Venmo @ marco-lanier (Please write “TREE” in the note) Since March 1st, 2026, Israel has intensified its war on Lebanon by martyring and wounding thousands, relentlessly bombing the country, and erasing villages in the South. Residents were forced to flee large populated areas across the South, the Beqaa, and Beirut, leaving everything behind. Many families are now living in tents, and overcrowded schools without access to basic necessities. Following the “ceasefire” announced on April 17th, a number of locals have been returning to their lands but with no house to sleep in. Israel is still bombarding the South. We urgently need your support to send trusted volunteers on the ground who provide displaced families with essential aid. The donations raised will be benefiting @tanseqeye_shaabeye_lebanon and @tarablos.tastajib (Instagram) Synopses: untitled part 3a: occupied territories (2001, 23’) by Jayce Salloum Excerpts from conversations of two elder Palestinians, Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan and Nameh Hussein Suleiman, who have been living in refugee camps in Lebanon since 1948, sharing their journeys of forced displacement. untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends.. (2002, 11’) by Jayce Salloum With the voice over of Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan narrating a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine, the tape permeates into an intense essay on dystopia in contemporary times, providing an elegiac response to the ongoing Palestinian dispossession. The Tree of Hell (2024, 22’) by Raed Zeno A documentary that draws a parallel between an invasive tree that grows in front of Raed’s house threatening local environmental diversity, and the continuous Israeli invasion and destruction of Lebanon.