Please join us tonight November 7 in the Palmerston Library for a free film screening of Khoon Diy Baraav (Blood Leaves its Trail). Doors open at 6:30, film screening starts at 7pm sharp. Refreshments provided. Iffat Fatima’s film Khoon Diy Baraav (Blood Leaves its Trail) provides an account of state enforced disappearances in Kashmir through narratives of families of "disappeared" men. The film gives access to everyday, personal, and collective modes of resistance to military occupation by the Indian state.



Made over nine years this film offers an intimate, non-sequential account of the lives of Kashmiri women, their resistance to state oppression, and their understanding of the political moment. Their use of memory and remembrance as a mode resistance shows the interwoven political and personal spaces of occupied lives in Kashmir.



The film captures a testimony of oppression and resistance that challenge and confront the erasure of “official” and mainstream accounts of the movement for national self determination in Kashmir.



The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Iffat Fatima.



This screening has been co-sponsored by Upping the Anti and South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC).



Please message us on facebook or email us at kashmirsolidaritytoronto@gmail.com if your organization would like to sponsor this event.







Accessibility info:

Please refrain from wearing scents and scented products to the event.

The theatre and washrooms are wheelchair accessible. Bathurst station is the closest wheelchair accessible station.

All-gender washrooms available.

The film is subtitled in English. We regret that ASL interpretation will not be available for the evening.

Please email us at kashmirsolidaritytoronto@gmail.com to discuss how we could make this space more accessible for you.



*Kashmir Solidarity Network - Toronto is a volunteer run organization that aims to contribute to building global solidarity for the people of Kashmir and their right to self-determination. While we aim to increase global awareness of the occupation of Kashmir, we recognize the importance of acknowledging the Indigenous territories upon which we reside and benefit from every day in T'karonto. As migrants/settlers, we cannot talk about the enforced state disappearances in Kashmir without talking about missing and murdered Indigenous women and two spirit peoples across Canada. We cannot talk about land confiscation, economic deprivation, and physical and psychological terror in Kashmir without recognizing our complicity in the unjust extraction of Indigenous people's resources and the illegal settlement of Indigenous peoples' land here. It is with this responsibility towards struggles for Indigenous sovereignty that we would like to acknowledge the traditional territory of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinabek, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit upon which we will gather for this event.



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