YOQAL يقال
Kamilya Jubran and Sarah Murcia (concert)
Sala Petita – April 9 at 9 p.m.
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Arabic poetry in a fascinating musical recital for voice and strings
The meeting between Kamilya Jubran, an extraordinary Palestinian singer and oudist (a person who plays the oud, a string instrument: Arab lute), and Sarah Murcia, an unmissable Franco-Spanish double bass player.
For 30 years, Jubran has been combining music and resistance in a career that is impossible to delimit. Poetry, emotion and political commitment come together here with jazz improvisation and Sarah Murcia’s musical curiosity. Rhythm and words intertwine and poetry envelops the sounds. The duo revisits classical Arabic roots and embarks on new adventures, with contemporary sounds and texts, such as the lyrics of Bedouin oral traditions.
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AWALEM عوالم
Ashtar Muallem, Clément Dazin and Emile Saba (physical theatre, circus, dance)
Ashtar Theatre Palestine
Sala Tallers – Wednesday, April 9 at 7 p.m. and Thursday, April 10 at 8 p.m.
Show in Arabic with subtitles in Catalan (09/04) and in Catalan and English (10/04)

A surprisingly elastic body in search of identity
Ashtar is an artist from Jerusalem who humorously explores her life and spirituality. She navigates between two lands – Palestine and France – and, inspired by memories of her grandmother, seeks a connection with the divine.
She practices yoga, meditation, tarot reading and hypnosis. Through satire, she invites us to participate in a ceremony in which poetry merges with humour, and subjectivity with the universal. A journey of balance and contradictions.
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TAHA طه
Amer Hlehel (dramatized reading)
With Lluís Marco
Directed by Mohamad Bitari
Sala Petita – Thursday, April 10 at 6 p.m.
Show in Catalan with Arabic subtitles
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The story of a man who has never stopped loving
Taha is a monologue written by Palestinian playwright Amer Hlehel. It traces the life and work of the famous Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali: “Taha’s personal story is inseparable from that of the 800,000 Palestinians who had to flee their country in 1948, following the occupation of Palestine by the new State of Israel. The monologue is not about the tragedy of one man, but the triumph of his life, the journey of a man who has never stopped loving.”
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LOSING IT !تبًّا
Samaa Wakim and Samar Haddad King (dance)
Sala Tallers – Friday, April 11 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 12 at 7 p.m.

Dancing fear
Growing up in a war zone means living and breathing politics. Palestinian choreographer and performer Samaa Wakim questions how this experience affects her identity in a new solo that deals with how the trauma of previous generations manifests in her own body through movement and sound.
The piece explores memories of her childhood under occupation and examines the different realities she experiences and the fantasies she has created out of fear and hope for survival. A conversation with the score performed live by Samar Haddad King.
Post-function meeting 11 April at 9 p.m.: PALESTINE, ARTISTS IN WAR with Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti

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DEAR LAILA عزيزتي ليلى
Basel Zaraa (individual immersive installation)
Sala Tallers – Saturday 12 April and Sunday 13 April - From 4 pm to 7:45 pm
Show in catalan

A house made of memories invites us to understand how everyday courage can face up to trauma
Dear Laila was created when the daughter of Basel, a Palestinian refugee artist, began asking him what the house where he grew up was like and why they can't go back. To answer this question, and given the impossibility of taking her there, Basel reconstructs his childhood home in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. A miniature house that takes us into the personal experience of one of the many families affected by the conflict. Dear Laila shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and resistance through family history and explores how war and exile are lived through the most quotidian and domestic events. An intimate and interactive installation for one spectator that uses storytelling and tactile details to bring this now destroyed place to life.

YES DADDY حاضر يا أبي
Bashar Murkus and Khulood Basel - Khashabi Theatre Palestine (theatre)
With Makram Khoury and Anan Abu Jabir
Sala Petita – Saturday, April 12 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, April 13 at 6 p.m.
Show in Arabic with subtitles in Catalan and English

How far is a person prepared to go to avoid ending up alone?
An old man can find no one willing to come to his house one night, except a young male prostitute. If the young man had known that his host was so old, he would not have gone. However, he decides to stay for a while with the old man, who does not want to have sex but rather seeks even more intimate things.
The young man discovers that the lonely old man has been struggling with his memory for some time. The young man sees the situation as an opportunity. He will take advantage of the man's forgetfulness to transform into all those people he has always wanted to be and to do everything he never dared to do.
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THE GAZELLE OF AKKA غزال عكّا
Raeda Taha (monologue)
Directed by Junaid Sarieddeen
Sala Tallers – Sunday, April 13 at 8 p.m.
Show in Arabic with subtitles in Catalan and English

The life of the Palestinian writer and activist Ghassan Kanafani
The Gazelle of Akka is the story in chapters of the life of a young man born in Akka in the 1930s. His short life was a stormy and turbulent journey marked by a forced displacement that turned him into a refugee.
He fought for freedom as a writer, as a literary figure, as a journalist, critic, children's book author and talented painter, who loved life to the fullest until he was brutally murdered at the age of thirty-six.
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THE LAND'S HEART IS GREATER THAN ITS MAP قلب الأرض أكبر من خريطتها
Olivia Furber and Ramzi Maqdisi (travelling installation)
Sala Gran hall - From April 9 to 13 at 6 p.m.
Show in Catalan

Join the guided tour through a distant city about to disappear
Driven by the need to tell of history of the city before it is forgotten forever, a resident records the stories hidden behind his favourite places and creates an experience that will allow you to walk through the streets of his hometown without having to travel beyond your own neighbourhood.
An emotional and cartographic piece of resistance that actively questions who has the right to claim the history of places and objects and how we can imaginatively save disappearing landscapes.

* This performance contains sensitive material and references to violence. Headphone audio includes loud and sudden sounds.
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SOUNDS OF MASKS أصوات الأقنعة
Radio Alhara and Wonder Cabinet
With yungoslo93, Omaya Malaeb and Pasaporteman
Taller de pintura - 10 April at 9 p.m.
DJ session - Activity with prior reservation
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A Bethlehem-Barcelona connection in a unique DJ session with Radio alHara and Wonder Cabinet.
Radio alHara is a online radio station that has been broadcasting since 2020 in solidarity with the Palestinian people's self-determination movements. Wonder Cabinet is an artistic collective to explore the environment through sound and objects. In Sounds of Masks, DJ will create a sound and visual mise-en-scène that will transport us into traditional Palestinian creativity and symbolism. Music, theatre, visual art and masks made in Bethlehem by Wonder Cabinet.
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PALESTINE, ARTISTS AT WAR فلسطين, فنَانين في الحرب
With Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti (meeting-debate)
Sala Tallers - April 11 at 9 p.m. - After Losing it show

Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti, researcher specialized in Palestinian theater, will give us a better understanding of Palestinian theatrical creation and the conditions under which it is produced. She will invite the festival's artists - Bashar Murkus, Khulood Basel, Samaa Wakim, Ramzi Maqdisi and Ashtar Muallem - to talk about creation from the perspective of the tragedy affecting their community.

Conversation in Arabic translated into Catalan by Miguel Jelelaty.