Canyon Cinema presents Single Spark Film: We Are the Palestinian People, April 14, 2026

Posted March 24th, 2026 in Announcements, Canyon at The Roxie, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events

Single Spark Film: We Are the Palestinian People
6:30pm Tuesday, April 14
The Roxie Theater, San Francisco

Presented by Canyon Cinema

Admission: $15 General / $12 Friends of Canyon Members

Event tickets here

Canyon at The Roxie returns with a look at the timely activist cinema of Single Spark Film. Emerging from the San Francisco-based social justice film distribution and production company California Newsreel, Single Spark was the film unit of the Revolutionary Communist Party (formerly the Revolutionary Union). This program pairs two indelible expressions of political counter-cinema: On Strike (1969), which documents the 1968-1969 student-led strike at SF State; and We Are the Palestinian People (1973, also known as Revolution Until Victory), which details the Zionist colonization of Palestinian land following World War II and the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement; both presented on 16mm prints.


Screening Line-Up

On Strike (Single Spark Film, 1969, 25 min, b&w, sound, 16mm)

Teachers and students mobilize themselves and literally fight the police and administration at San Francisco State to set up programs for ethnic studies. Led by the Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front, the longest student-run strike in US history was instrumental in establishing the nation’s first College of Ethnic Studies.

We Are the Palestinian People (Single Spark Film, 1973, 55 min, b&w, sound, 16mm)

From the refugee camps they have lived in for over 30 years, the Palestinian people build a movement to regain their homeland from the Zionists. This film chronicles the history of the Palestinians’ cause and reveals the symbiotic relationship between the Zionist movement and larger imperialist powers, first the British empire and now US imperialism.


Approximate Running Time: 80 minutes