{"id":57482,"date":"2026-01-28T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=57482"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:51:30","slug":"tft-cinema-du-sud-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2026\/01\/tft-cinema-du-sud-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom Theatre in Conversation at Cin\u00e9ma du Sud: Cultural Resistance, Youth, and Global Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11 July 2020 | The Freedom Theatre (TFT)<\/strong> participated in an international online discussion hosted by <strong>Cin\u00e9ma du Sud (Southern Cinema Festival)<\/strong>, organised by the <strong>Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East<\/strong> in cooperation with <strong>Global Children Village (SOS)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session featured <strong>Ahmed Tobasi<\/strong>, Artistic Director of The Freedom Theatre, alongside Chilean filmmaker <strong>Jaime Villarreal<\/strong>, following the screening of Villarreal\u2019s film <em>Journey of the Others<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Film<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Journey of the Others<\/em> turns its lens toward <strong>Jenin Refugee Camp<\/strong>, where The Freedom Theatre continues to nurture a vital artistic movement grounded in what TFT has long articulated as <strong>cultural resistance<\/strong>, the belief that theatre can be a space to reclaim voice, dignity, imagination, and agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through intimate encounters with Palestinian youth, the film explores how young people, living under the daily realities of occupation, choose performance not as escape, but as <strong>an act of presence and courage<\/strong>, insisting on the right to dream and to create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documentary also reflects The Freedom Theatre\u2019s international reach, including the touring of its acclaimed production <strong>The Siege<\/strong> to <strong>New York, USA<\/strong>, affirming TFT\u2019s role as a Palestinian cultural institution whose work resonates across borders and speaks to global audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Space for Dialogue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This conversation formed part of TFT\u2019s commitment to <strong>international cultural exchange<\/strong>, where Palestinian theatre is not framed as a marginal story, but as a contemporary artistic practice, rooted in community, shaped by struggle, and engaged with the world.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 July 2020 | The Freedom Theatre (TFT) participated in an international online discussion hosted by Cin\u00e9ma du Sud (Southern Cinema Festival), organised by the Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East in cooperation with Global Children Village (SOS). The session featured Ahmed Tobasi, Artistic Director of The Freedom Theatre, alongside Chilean filmmaker [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":57483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57485,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57482\/revisions\/57485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}