Yallah Gaza by Roland Nurier, a French director, was filmed before the war swept devastation over the strip; in fact its first screening in Paris was scheduled for 4th October last year.

Yallah Gaza attempts to understand how people can live almost normally when the Occupier refuses them the most elementary human rights. The film records their daily struggle that keeps despair at bay and how they pass this flame, their culture and their land, onto generation after generation. Yallah Gaza bears witness to their “fury to live”.
(English French, Arabic, English Subtitles)

In this Palestinian classic, the mayor of a West Bank village wants his son to adhere to Palestinian tradition in his upcoming wedding. Custom conflicts with the Israeli military curfew. Against expectations, the father gets clearance from the occupying governor. But there's a catch: the governor and his Israeli colleagues have to be on the guest list…..

After-film discussion with Fred Coker, founder member of the Workers’ Film Association in 1974, who has carefully kept the original reels of the film.

Michel Khleifi, Palestine, Belgium, France, 1987 1hr 40mins

Explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice under occupation.

(Arabic, Hebrew, English, English subitiles)

Maurizio Benazzo, Zaya Benazzo, USA 2023, 1 hr 43mins

Presented with SPARK Social Justice.

At the end of the film there will be the opportunity to join a facilitated discussion.

Doors will open at 6pm, film starts 7pm

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With international reporters locked out, Palestinian journalists have made huge sacrifices to keep the world informed of the genocide in Gaza. More media workers have been killed by Israel since October 7 than in any other conflict in modern history.

Using film, presentation and discussion, Palestinian journalists Juman Quneis and Ahmed Alnaouq will tell us about the crucial work that journalists do in Gaza and the West Bank to keep the world informed of the unprecedented killing and destruction.

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to fight for Palestinian equality and redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.

(English)

Erin Axelman & Sam Eilersten, USA 2023, 1hr 24 mins

Presented with Leeds University PSC.

Speaker: Anne Caldwell, University Teaching Fellow

Film-maker Farah Nabulsi says:

“Although I was born, raised, and educated in the UK, in London, my blood, my heritage is very much Palestinian... I wanted to get specific and tell a personal story about someone living that reality, and explore the real-life conditions, experiences, and human emotions that drive a person to make certain choices and take certain actions... My intention with THE TEACHER is to take audiences on an intense, emotional journey into those lives and experiences...”

(English, Arabic, English subtitles)

Farha is a dramatised historical account of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who lives through the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) that led to the displacement of 750,000 Palestinian citizens and deaths of 15,000 more.

The film centres on Farha’s experiences when she is locked in a storage room by her father, as Israeli soldiers attack her village. It is a powerful and provocative coming-of-age journey of a young girl whose innocence is destroyed by the violence she witnesses

(Arabic, English, Hebrew, English subtitles)

We invite you to a family friendly evening of kite making and film watching.

Set in Gaza in 2010, this uplifting film is a celebration of the creativity of Palestinian youth, in the most desolate of circumstances, as young people try to break the Guinness Record for kite flying.

(English, Arabic, English subtitles)

Roger Hill, Nitin Sawhney, Israel, Palestine, USA 2013, 1hr 11mins

Presented with St Lukes Cares.

Doors open 5:30
Kite Making 5:30
Refreshments 6:30
Film screening 7:30

A stormy night, a creaking old mansion, and a killer on the loose —Universal Pictures’ 1927 horror-comedy is the perfect Halloween treat.

The Film:

Twenty years after the death of millionaire Cyrus West, his relatives are called together in his decaying mansion on the Hudson River to hear the reading of the will. They discover that West has left everything to his niece Annabelle (Laura La Plante) - on the condition that she is judged to be legally sane.