Maiken Baird

Independent documentary filmmaker: Antidote, Wild Wild Space, The Grab, Totally Under Control, Icarus, Client 9, Venus and Serena, & more.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

A long overdue film:

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

As the video below demonstrates, Israelis are often astonishingly ignorant about the history of the Palestinians communities around them. They haven't the slightest conception that, as their DNA proves, the Palestinians have deep roots in the soil going back to at least the Bronze Age and are in many cases their cousins. Instead they imagine them- quite unhistorically- as random Arab immigrants from 6thC on, who are indistinguishable from other Arabic-speakers elsewhere and who should therefore be ethnically cleansed to other Arabic-speaking areas, without compunction.

The half-truths and massive omissions of Zionist history writing from Herzl onwards has a lot to answer for: history re-written to airbrush an entire people out of history and prepare the way for the ethnic extinction of the entire indigenous Palestinians people.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

I have not yet watched NAZA, though I have seen some of the footage and excerpts published online.

I’m struggling to understand what this film is going to add to what I have already witnessed in Gaza and personally survived.

I have written hundreds of times about relatives of mine and my wife, as well as thousands of other families, who were killed in their sleep, in their homes, in tents, and in school shelters. I have relatives whose remains are still trapped beneath the rubble of their homes.

I have posted countless times about Israel’s bombing of residential buildings, including entire towers. Just two days ago, I wrote about the recovery of the remains of 101 people who had been trapped beneath the rubble since October 25, 2023. And whatever the hell does “recovery” even mean in this context?

Survivors have spoken. They have written. They have documented the massacres day and night.

The essays are there. The social media posts are there. The videos are there. The photographs are there. The testimonies are there.

And Israelis, officials, soldiers, and even some artists have publicly expressed views calling for more killing, for the killing of Palestinians more broadly. Remember the April 2024 poll in which 34% of Israeli adults said their military had “not gone far enough.”
[Note: between October 2023 and April 2024, Israel slaughtered over 34,000 Palestinians. Still not enough!]

Just yesterday, we watched a video of a 17-year-old saying that even babies in Gaza must be killed.

It’s all there.

So what will this film add?

How will it move anyone to action to stop these war crimes when the people living through them have been documenting them in real time, over and over again?

I just cannot imagine a Holocaust victim or survivor somehow managing to write and simultaneously publish their testimony from inside a concentration camp or gas chamber in Germany, Poland, or Italy, while also filming the killing and deaths of the people around them, whether from gassing, starvation, or other forms of extermination, and publishing that footage online.

And then, years later, a group of Nazi officers, after being strictly anonymized, comes forward to declare that they orders to carry out atrocities. They come forward to describe what the victims had already documented and shared with the world in real time.

I mean, come on!

How the hell is that more shocking than the actual footage of babies being killed? Of entire families being wiped out? Of people digging through the rubble for the remains of their loved ones?

I mean, yes, NAZA could be important for racist people who refuse to trust Palestinians when we speak but are willing to trust the Israeli narrative. I mean here editors in the NYT, CNN, Reuters, AP, and others to present the Israeli justification for a crime before anything else in the headline. (example below)

But HELL with that.

If you cannot trust our voices, after we have documented our own suffering in real time, then we definitely do not trust your humanity or your fake feelings.
History shall hold you accountable for your complicity.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

The Scottish entered the chat

American-Scottish rock band ❤️

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Macklemore has faced more consequences than anyone in the Epstein Files.

[IndieWire @IndieWire]

‘Edward Said: Between Worlds’ Brings an Articulate Palestinian Spokesman Back to Life https://t.co/ZNZCB0FyKG

[Edward Said: Between Worlds @edwardsaidfilm]

In 1978, Edward Said published ‘Orientalism’, naming and examining the ways the West had imagined a region and its people for centuries. Almost five decades later, ‘Orientalism’ is still urgently relevant and remains a foundational literary text.

[New York Film Festival @TheNYFF]

@GKIDSfilms @Godzilla_Toho @HanWayFilms @A24 EDWARD SAID: BETWEEN WORLDS (Maiken Baird) | U.S. Premiere

The life and mind of Edward Said, a professor, author, and world-renowned advocate for the Palestinian cause, fuels Maiken Baird’s rich, engrossing documentary, made up entirely of archival footage.

[Edward Said: Between Worlds @edwardsaidfilm]

“Palestinian cinema provides a visual alternative, a visual articulation, a visible incarnation of Palestinian existence in the years since 1948... and a way of resisting an imposed identity on Palestinians as terrorists.”
– Edward Said

OFFICIAL SELECTION: @TheNYFF

[Jigsaw Productions @JigsawProds]

We're thrilled to share that @MaikenBaird's 'Edward Said' and Tom McCarthy's 'A Statement' will screen at the 64th New York Film Festival!

[Edward Said: Between Worlds @edwardsaidfilm]

"To walk around the Met is really to be in the presence of a tremendous cultural and financial conquest."
–Edward Said

[Edward Said: Between Worlds @edwardsaidfilm]

"I can’t think of anyone whose voice is more pertinent to the large geopolitical conversations that we’re having today."
–@thompowers on Edward Said

[TIFF @TIFF_NET]

#TIFF26 World Premiere:

📹 EDWARD SAID: BETWEEN WORLDS
dir. Maiken Baird

[Dogwoof @Dogwoof]

We're thrilled to announce that #DogwoofSales has two films premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival 2026!

LOW LIES THE LAND
Set among the vineyards of Piemonte, Low Lies the Land is a moving and deeply human portrait of Italian wine-growing families fighting to preserve generations of tradition as climate change, economic pressures and an uncertain future threaten a disappearing way of life.

EDWARD SAID: BETWEEN WORLDS
An extraordinary all-archival portrait of Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, whose own voice guides audiences through his remarkable life and the untold history of Palestine in a powerful exploration of identity, exile and belonging.

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

TIFF Docs Lineup Announced: Rapinoe, Said, Love, And A Scent Of Musk https://t.co/RhlhbFitkt

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels.

Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance.

Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it.

It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present.

More people voted no than yes. It still passed.

Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest.

This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran.

Source: @Fidias0 / Writer: Oliver

[The Muslim Mum @TheMumMuslim]

Roger Waters tells Tucker Carlson that after visiting Palestine several times he concludes the Israelis have created 'hell on earth' apartheid conditions for the Palestinians.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Warriors play to win with resilience and grit, and also respect and joy for the competition.

[Vivian Kubrick @ViKu1111]

This is @frankwrighter - you’ll definitely want to follow him😉👍

[Max Igan @MaxtheCrowhouse]

Donald Trump is using US tax dollars to fund this barbarism. This is not an isolated incident. US backed israeli terrorists are kidnapping Palestinian children daily to place in military prisons for rape and torture while the world stands by. israel is the only country on Earth to have constructed military prisons specifically for children.