Eternal, produced by 1iFilms and Irish Modern Dance Theatre is being shown Festival de Court Metrages Mediterraneen, Avignon, France 11 – 13 June.

Directed by Steve Woods, choreography by John Scott with Aising Doyle and Michael Pomero of Irish Modern Dance Theatre and eight dancers from Palestine.

Both the dance and the images of Eternal are about the duality in resistance. The wish to protest, to vent your anger on the one hand; with the instinct to protect and to survive on the other. Shot in Beit Jella near Bethlehem the resistance in question is the struggle for Palestinian rights. Shown at Fastnet Film Festival and Dublin Dance Festival.