A STATE OF PASSION - Film Screening
Sat, May 24
|The Redwood Theatre
7pm doors, 8pm screening East End Acts and Doctors Against Genocide are proud to co-present A STATE OF PASSION, a feature-length documentary by Lebanese-Palestinian filmmakers Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi.
Time & Location
May 24, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
The Redwood Theatre, 1300 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON M4L 1Y7, Canada
About the event
In November 2023, after 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance.
With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he spoke of a catalogue of horrors from lacerated bodies, to amputations without anesthetics, orphaned children with no surviving family, and the deliberate targeting of medics and hospital facilities.
This was Ghassan’s sixth and most horrific Gaza “war." Why does he do it? Where does he find the strength to face it again and again? How does it impact his family? How do they process the risks he takes? The answer lies simply in their shared passion: Palestine, a passion they articulate through their support of his perilous humanitarian work.
Doctors Against Genocide (DAG) is…