A Night We Held Between

The film centers around “Song for The Fighters,” which was found at the sonic archive of the Popular Art Center Palestine. Through the layers of the song, in a labyrinth of sounds and sites, the film conjures history as a permanent present tense, a collective and imaginative act.

The film was shot in ancient sites in Palestine—caves, carved holes, underground passages, and wild valleys—the land becomes our main character. It traverses beyond the first layer of visibility to reveal a vast, hidden world similar to the one we know. Throughout the film, scenes intertwine rituals and narratives of community and resistance into everyday representations of social life in Palestine, thus emphasizing the role of collective rhythmic movement and the potential impact that shared feelings can evoke in creating and sustaining a community.

Cinematographies of Resistance is a multiannual program launched by Leila Topić (Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb) and Dina Pokrajac (Subversive Festival). The program is dedicated to presenting international filmmakers who create work at the intersection of contemporary art and film strategies and practices, fusing the expressive possibilities of art film, film essay and openness to experimentation. The Cinematographies of Resistance is interested in auteurial positions that seek to resist mainstream canons, with an approach that is characterized by intermediality and intertextuality, open to engage with a variety of topics. The resistance from the program’s title is manifested in the search for new models and approaches in contrast to the established ways of thinking about cinematic medium, expanded photography as well as film and multimedia art in general. As part of the Cinematographies of Resistance program, so far we have presented the works and video installations by Maud Alpi (2018), Sabina Mikelić (2019), Nicole Hewitt (2021), Jasmina Cibic (2023), Nika Autor (2023), Milica Rakić (2024) and Driant Zeneli (2025).