Cinema Palestino
Sheffield Showroom Cinema
7th May - 4th June 2009
The Sheffield Showroom Cinema and Yorkshire Paletine Cultural Exchange have collaborated to put on Sheffield's first Palestinian Film Festival which will take place at the SHowroom CInema from Thursday 7th May until Thursday 4th June.
The festival will kick off with an opening talk entitled Palestinian Film: Cultural Resistence at Work, by Professor Haim Bresheeth, film maker, photographer and eminent thinker in the realm of film and culturual studiesm, now lecturer at University of East London, formerly head of the jury at the Israeli Cinema South Film Festival
cinemaPalestino is a season of films exploring issues that affect us all - falling in love, making a home, caring for a family, freedom. - but under the shadow of military occupation that distorts all aspects of daily life for the people of Palestine.
cinemaPalestino is a celebration of Palestinian culture through drama and documentary film - despite 60 years of unimagineable oppression, Palestinians have retained a vital, creative, and powerful identity.
For more information, and film list see:
www.ypce.org.uk
www.showroom.org.uk
Contact:
Bill Lawrence, Showroom Cinema bill@showroom.org.uk
Jonny Feldman YPCE shimshun2002@yahoo.co.uk
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