We will be holding our next Cafe Palestina event on Saturday, 12/6/25, from 5:00pm to 7:30 pm. We will be screening a feature length film that has received a great deal of attention and acclaim, From Ground Zero.

In discussing the film, Michael Moore said:
FROM GROUND ZERO, the first film ever from Gaza to be elected to the shortlist for the Oscar, is unlike any movie you’ve ever seen — filmed during a mass slaughter of civilians, the vast majority of them children, women and the elderly. In a brisk and powerful one hour and fifty-two minutes, it weaves together 22 short films made by 22 courageous Palestinian filmmakers living and surviving in Gaza. These are stories not told anywhere else. These stories are not on the evening news. Military leaders prohibit access so that journalists and filmmakers cannot bring us the truth. Even though you and I are the providers of all these horrific weapons, we are not allowed to witness what Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have declared to be a genocide — war crimes committed in our name. Instead, we are the victims of a powerful propaganda campaign intended to dehumanize the 5 million human beings in all the Occupied Palestinian Territories who are forced to live imprisoned behind walls and barbed wire, forced into starvation, nearly every hospital and school in Gaza bombed to smithereens, the country’s homes reduced to rubble. My friends, FROM GROUND ZERO mixes dramatic storytelling, documentary, and animation. Working with whatever tools they were able to pull from the rubble of their homes and their cities, these filmmakers have come together to share these stories with us. Academy voters in their earliest round of voting have declared this to be an exceptional film. They recognize this brilliant movie for what it is: A masterwork of great art.