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Bristol Palestine Film Festival returns
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Bristol Palestine Film Festival, now in its seventh year, returns this week with a series of screenings across the city, celebrating Palestinian film in a landmark year for the country.
2017 marks seventy years since roughly half of Palestine’s population were forced from their country, and fifty years since a second exodus tipped the balance, leaving the majority living outside of their homeland. To this day, the Palestine Question remains unresolved; the two-state solution a distant dream.
is needed now More than ever
A rich programme of drama and documentary, features and shorts, offer a better understanding of this complicated part of the world, and each film is a different look at Palestine, whether through a political or personal lens.
Highlights of the programme include Maysaloun Hamoud’s In Between, a blockbuster that earned its female director many accolades and a fatwa for its portrayal of three women in alternative Tel Aviv. On Friday night, Junction 48, a drama starring a Palestinian rapper playing a fictionalised version of himself, is followed by an unmissable gig with political hip-hop supergroup 47 Soul. Their own-brand genre of “shamstep” blends traditional dabke music with synths, and is guaranteed to get everyone dancing in Old Market’s Exchange.
Add to that screenings from Wednesday to Monday, director Q&As, an embroidery exhibition and mouth-watering Palestinian cuisine, and you have a week-long showcase of the finest and most pertinent in Palestinian film and culture.
To find out more and buy tickets, head to www.bristolpff.org.uk
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