The film “Degrade” will be screened at Uplink Kichijoji on Friday, October 20, with a 100 yen admission fee.
“Degrade” is a feature film that screened at the Critics’ Week of the 68th Cannes International Film Festival in 2015 and was directed by twins Tarzan and Arab Nassar, who were born and raised in Gaza, Palestinian territory. Set in a small beauty parlor in Gaza, the film is a human drama about 13 women living tough in the harsh daily life under war conditions, and conveys the voices of the residents of Gaza, which are not available in the media, in the form of a dramatic film.
The film will be distributed for free on Uplink’s mini-theater subscreening service ” DICE+ ” from Monday, October 23, at 12:00 pm.
Degrade
Director/Screenplay: Tarzan & Arab Nassar
Cast: Hiam Abbas, Maissa Abd Elhadi, Manal Awad, Dinah Shiver, Mirna Sakala, Victoria Baritzka, et al.
(2015/Palestine, France, Qatar/84 min/Arabic/1:2.35/5.1ch/DCP)
Subtitle translation: Yoko Matsuoka Source: UPLINK, Cine Godot Distribution/Promotion: UPLINK
Film Overview.
“Degrade” was screened at the 68th Cannes International Film Festival’s Critics’ Week in 2015 and is directed by twin filmmakers Tarzan & Arab Nassar, who were born and raised in Gaza.
The film takes place in a beauty parlor in Gaza, Palestinian territories. While the women gathered in the waiting room wait their turn to have their hair done, gunfire is being fired across the street by Hamas and the mafia, and an Israeli drone is flying in the sky. The beauty salon is stranded in the middle of a war zone, and everyday life is suddenly transformed into a battlefield.
The women try to keep their composure under such extreme conditions, but their hands tremble as they apply nail polish, and an altercation breaks out in the small beauty salon. Then one woman says, “If we fight, we are no better than the men outside.
The women think it is always only the men who fight. They dress up, put on makeup. They talk and live their ordinary lives. That is their resistance.
