Films
| These Are My Friends: An Evening with Satori Circus World Première | Sunday, March 30 @ 5:30 p.m. | Planet Ant |
| No Other Land at Lutheran Church of the Master |
Sunday, April 13 at 6:00 or 8:00 p.m. |
World Première
These Are My Friends: An Evening with Satori Circus
A Concert Film
Sunday, March 30 at 5:30 p.m.
Doors at 5:00 p.m. | Planet Ant, 2320 Caniff, Hamtramck
Join Cinema Detroit for an exciting experience with Satori Circus and Friends!
The evening will include
• the WORLD PREMIERE of the concert film THESE ARE MY FRIENDS: AN EVENING WITH SATORI CIRCUS
• a LIVE performance by Konrad Lee-Lounge Singer Extraordinaire, AND
• a Q & A with Satori Circus and filmmakers after the film
THESE ARE MY FRIENDS: AN EVENING WITH SATORI CIRCUS is a new film of the legendary concert by Satori Circus and His Friends at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac, Michigan, on February 10, 2018.
From Manxman Films, the team that brought you Being Satori Circus: A Performance Documentary in Five Acts, THESE ARE MY FRIENDS features performances by the Theatre Bizarre Orchestra, Pinch and Squeal of Whiz Bang Theatre, Josie Pace, Lushes LaMoan & Scotty D, Konrad Lee-Lounge Singer Extraordinaire, and of course…Satori Circus!
If you were there, you know. If you missed it, now is your chance!
Early Bird discounted tickets are available
This event is a fundraiser for Cinema Detroit.
Since losing our space in July 2023, we’ve continued to offer access to a wide variety of films. Most of these are exclusive to us and would not otherwise be seen in the City of Detroit or even the Metro area. We pay other organizations to use their spaces, we pay for film rights, and we no longer sell concessions, which was a major source of revenue. Your ticket purchase helps keep us going. Thank you!
Sunday, April 13 at 6:00 or 8:00 p.m.
Lutheran Church of the Master, 3333 Coolidge Hwy, Troy 48084
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.
Director’s Statement
We’re making this film together, a Palestinian-Israeli group of activists and filmmakers, because we want to stop the ongoing expulsion of the community of Masafer Yatta, and resist the reality of Apartheid we were born into – from opposite, unequal sides. Reality around us is becoming scarier, more violent, more oppressive, every day – and we are very weak in front of it. We can only shout out something radically diff erent, this film – which at its core, is a proposal for an alternate way Israelis and Palestinians can live in this land – not as oppressor and oppressed, but in full equality.
Academy Award Winner – Best Documentary Feature
Norway, Palestine. 2024.
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
In Arabic, Hebrew, and English with English subtitles.
Running time 96 min.