R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity
The Tokyo Reels are a collection of 20 16mm films. They were preserved in Tokyo by the Japanese Palestine solidarity movement between the 1960s and 1980s. The restoration of these films brings to light the motivations, aspirations and disappearance of a generation and its struggles.
Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house, Idioms Film. Yaqubi is one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films that focuses on militant film practices, also, a founding member of the Palestine Film Institute, that focus on supporting, promoting, and preserving Palestinian cinema, he is a resident researcher at The School of the Art (KASK) in Gent, Belgium since 2017.
His first feature film, Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016) made its premiere at TIFF, Berlinale, Cinéma du réel, Dubai IFF, and Yamagata.
Idioms Film / Escautville / Sak a Do / Kitchen BXL
Casey Asprooth-Jackson
Raf Enckels
Rami El Nihawi
Escautville - distribution@escautville.org
