Date
17/11/2015
7:30 pm
Location
Seven Arts Centre
Severn Arts Centre
LEEDS
Welcome to the first Leeds Palestinian Film Festival
We are proud to bring you a selection of films from and about Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora. Ranging from documentaries to dramas to our favourite – a Claymation – we hope these will illuminate the darkness of troubled times.
We are pleased to have Richard Burgon (MP for East Leeds and newly appointed Shadow Treasury Secretary) opening the festival on 15 November, given his longtime interest and commitment to Palestine.
‘Amreeka’ This lighthearted film chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. Told with heartfelt humor, “Amreeka” is a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live and the bittersweet search for a place to call home.
Director and writer: Cherien Dabis, released 2009, running time: 96 minutes, cast includes Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem and Alia Shawkat
Tickets £5 / £3.50 concessions
For more information visit: http://www.leedspsc.org.uk/filmfestival/