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Event: Middle Eastern Film Festival: Cinema of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
Organisers and Partners: A partnership between The Middle East Festival, MESP, and the Filmhouse, supported by the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Iranian Festival, Screen Academy Scotland, Scottish Documentary Institute, Stills Gallery, CCA, Italian Cultural Institute Edinburgh, and with main funding support from Creative Scotland, and additional funding from Edinburgh Iranian Festival.

This festival is organised and directed by Neill Walker (on behalf of MESP), with programme curation by James McKenzie, in association with Neill Walker, Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Stills’ Kirsten Lloyd and Filmhouse’s Evi Tsiligaridou, and is managed by Neill Walker (on behalf of the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, SC038996).

This year’s Middle Eastern Film Festival looks at Palestine through the lenses of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, celebrates contemporary Iranian cinema, and provides a platform for festival favourites Nabil Ayouch, Merzak Allouache and Ibrahim El-Batout.

Palestinian cinema provides a visual articulation of Palestinian existence post-1948 and a way of resisting imposed identities. Taken together, this selection of films goes beyond the surface of stereotypes and presents a detailed and insightful look at the complexities, contradictions and human cost of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There will also be a selection of some of the best of contemporary Middle Eastern cinema from other Middle Eastern countries.

The purpose of the Festival is to provide a focus for the study and promotion of Middle Eastern cinema. The geographic area covered by the Festival broadly covers that outlined in Oliver Leahman’s ‘Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film,’ which includes Central Asia, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Iraq.

Following on from the retrospective on Iranian cinema in 2009, Egyptian cinema in 2010, Turkish cinema in 2011, and Kurdish cinema in 2012, this year’s retrospective will be on Cinema of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.

Venue: Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh. EH3 9BZ.
Contact and Booking: 0131 228 2688, www.filmhousecinema.com

The Palestinian strand opens with Michel Khleifi’s complex and erotic masterpiece, Wedding in Galilee, dealing with the clash of cultures between Israeli occupiers and Arab villagers, and closes with Susan Youssef’s lyrical feature debut, Habibi, where the central characters must choose between their love and the mores of their society.

Rashid Masharawi’s Haifa stars Mohamed Bakri in a tale of love and hope set in a Palestinian refugee camp, screening with Nada El-Yassir’s ode to survival in the West Bank, Four Songs for Palestine.

Elia Sulieman’s sardonic Divine Intervention  is a tale of two lovers, separated by the checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, whilst his collaboration with visual artist Jayce Salloum, Introduction to the End of an Argument,  is a witty tableaux of familiar images from popular films, from Exodus to Lawrence of Arabia, that betray the racial stereotyping of Arabs in Western cinema.

Veteran director Hany Abu-Assad had already established himself as an important Palestinian filmmaker with Ford Transit and Rana’s Wedding before making Paradise Now, a tense and humanistic tale of Palestinian suicide bombers, exploring the morality of martyrdom.

Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi draws parallels between the Palestinian conflict and the myths of Samson and Masada in Avenge but one of my two eyes, whilst Yoav Gross’ Susya is a deeply affecting story of an Arab man’s return to his old village, now an Israeli archaeological site.

Yoav Shamir is another Israeli filmmaker with an acute observational sense, brought to the fore in Checkpoint, a document of encounters between Arab civilians and Israeli soldiers at the checkpoints between Israel and the Occupied Terrorities.

Annemarie Jacir’s debut film Salt of this Sea is a flawed, but courageous, polemic on the social and economic landscape and borderlines of post-1948 Palestine, centred on the efforts of a young American-born Palestinian to free the savings of her grandfather, frozen following his exile from Jaffa in 1948.

Erik Riklis’ Lemontree adopts a lighter and more whimsical tone in this adaptation of true events, when a Palestinian widow took her case all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court in an attempt to save her lemon trees from destruction by the Israeli security forces.

Taken together, this selection of films goes beyond the surface of stereotypes and presents a detailed and insightful look at the complexities, contradictions and human cost of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

One of the most enduring national cinemas of recent years has been from Iran and this year we present a selection of contemporary Iranian films, opening with Seyyed Riza Mir-Karimi’s delightful A Cube of Sugar, a visually sumptuous comedy drama set during the wedding of the youngest sister, and ending with Mani Haghighi’s award laden anarchic comedy, Modest Reception.

Homayoun Assadian’s Kissing the Moon-Like Face is a sensitive and deeply emotional melodrama, looking at the continuing impact of the Iran-Iraq war of the eighties on the mothers of the missing ‘martyrs’.

Habib Bahmani’s Salma and the Apple, sees a return to the elliptical style that has made Iranian cinema so popular, in this love story that uses the apple as a symbol of consent, desire, forgiveness and free will - a big hit on the festival circuit.

Reza Dormishian uses a much more direct approach with Hatred, a nihilistic exploration of the diaspora experience, notable for its jump cuts and Javad Javali’s camerawork.

Dariush Mehrjui, father of the Iranian new wave of the seventies (The Cycle, The Postman and The Cow) continues to impress with The Orange Suit, a whimsical eco-comedy about one man’s attempt to clean the streets of Tehran, whilst fighting a bitter custody battle.

Nabil Ayouch’s epic social realist drama God’s Horses is an impressive adaptation of Mahi Binebine’s novel, The Stars of Sidi Moumen, about the radicalisation of Moroccan youth in the slums of Casablanca.

Ibrahim El-Batout shines the spotlight on the Arab spring with Winter of Discontent, an upbeat drama set during the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, whilst Merzak Allouache’s The Repentant explores the difficulty of peace and reconciliation at the end of the Algerian civil war, when an amnesty was extended to repentant rebel guerrillas. The film opens in 1999 on a slow fuse, but works towards a devastating climax, which is as good a dramatization of the ambiguities of Islamic fundamentalism ever put to celluloid.

Local filmmakers Roxana Vilk, with her profile on Middle Eastern poets for Al Jazeera’s Artscape series, Poets of Protest, and Walid Salhab, with his sweet and lyrical short Innocence, also feature in the final lineup.

The festival is rounded off by the quirky and visually striking documentary Dubai Citydwellers, screening at the Stills Gallery.

The festival opens with Seyyed Riza Mir-Karimi’s A Cube of Sugar and closes with Susan Youseff’s Habibi.

SCHEDULE               
                   
07-Feb    Thurs     20:30    A Cube of Sugar (116) + intro (5 mins)
08-Feb    Frid        20:40    Kissing the Moon-Like Face (93)
09-Feb    Sat        13:10    Salma and the Apple (90)
09-Feb    Sat        17:50    God's Horses (115)    
10-Feb    Sun       16:00    Hatred (84)   
10-Feb    Sun       20:40    Wedding in Galilee (100)
11-Feb    Mon       18:00    Haifa (75)  + 4 Songs for Palestine (15)
12-Feb    Tue        20:40    The Orange Suit (107)
13-Feb    Wed      17:45    Divine Intervention (92) + Introduction to the end of an Argument
14-Feb    Thurs    20:40    Modest Reception (100)
15-Feb    Frid       18:15    Paradise Now (90)    
16-Feb    Sat        13:30    Avenge But One of My Eyes (100) + Susya (15)
16-Feb    Sat        18:15    Winter of Discontent (94)
17-Feb    Sun       15:30    Poets of Protest (UK) (100 + 30m for event )
17-Feb    Sun       20:40    Salt of this Sea  (109)
18-Feb    Mon       18:15    The Repentent (87)   
19-Feb    Tue       18:00    Dubai Citydwellers (screening at Stills)
19-Feb    Tue       20:30    Checkpoint  (80)   
20-Feb    Wed      18:10    Lemontree (106)   
21-Feb    Thurs    20:30    Habibi  (78) + Innocence (5)
                   
All screenings except Dubai Citydwellers are at the Filmhouse.
                   
Further details of the Filmhouse screenings can be had from www.filmhousecinema.com.
                   
The Stills screening of Dubai Citydwellers is a free, but ticketed event - further details from www.stills.org   

A Cube of Sugar Ye habe ghand
Thu 7 Feb at 8.30pm
Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi • Iran 2011 • 1h56m
Digibeta • Persian with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Puneh Abdolkarim-Zadeh, Amir-Hossein Arman, Farhad Aslani, Shamsi Fazlollahi, Hedayat Hashemi.
An extended Iranian family gather in an old house for the marriage of the youngest daughter, bringing together a complex and brilliantly interwoven series of stories and characters that are brim full of the joys and tragedies of life. Grandsons whisper about ghosts in the barn, girls laugh about boys, women mourn lost loves, in-laws search for treasure hidden under the floorboards, children play noisily, whilst the old worry about their mortality and pay tribute to dead friends. Delightful, engaging and insightful.

Kissing the Moon-Like Face
Boosidane roye mah
Fri 8 Feb at 8.40pm
Homayoun Assadian • Iran 2012 • 1h33m
Digibeta • Persian with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Rabe’e Madani, Saeed Poursamimi, Masoud Rayegany, Saber Abbar.
Etherem and Forugh are best friends and neighbours who both lost sons in the bloody Iran-Iraq conflict of the eighties. Twenty years after Etherem’s son disappeared, his remains are found and identified, but Etherem, through her misguided sense of friendship and loyalty, tells her terminally ill friend, Forugh, that it is her son. The repurcussions of this distortion are tragic, unexpected and far-reaching.

Salma and the Apple Sib o Salma
Sat 9 Feb at 1.10pm
Habib Bahmani • Iran 2011 • 1h30m
Digibeta • Persian with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Hadi Dibaji, Sogal Ghalatian, Jafar Dehghan, Esmaiel Khalaj.
A beautifully photographed allegory in which a young cleric bites into an apple and then seeks out its owner to ask for her consent. When he finds her, he asks for forgiveness, but, feeling a strong attraction to him, she refuses, realising that she must confront his sense of morality if she is to seduce him. The young cleric must choose between his piety and his desire. Habib Bahmani’s film weaves a complex tapestry, interrogating concepts of morality, of good and evil, of what is permissible and what is sinful.

God’s Horses Les chevaux de Dieu
Sat 9 Feb at 5.50pm
Nabil Ayouch • Morocco 2012 • 1h55m
Digital projection • French with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek.
Nabil Ayouch’s adaptation of Mahi Binebine’s novel ‘The Stars of Sidi Moumen’ is both intimate and epic. It is the tale of two brothers, Hamid and Yachine, growing up in the harsh slums on the outskirts of Casablanca. The violent Hamid acts as the family protector and light of his mother’s eye, but inevitably ends up in jail, leaving Yachine and his mother to fend for themselves. When Hamid returns, he has renounced his violent past and turned to religious fundamentalism. The power of Ayouch’s film is in his sympathetic representation of the slum’s inhabitants, aided by naturalistic performances from a largely non-professional cast.

Hatred Boghz
Sun 10 Feb at 4.00pm
Reza Dormishian • Iran 2012 • 1h24m
Digital projection • Persian and Turkish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Mehran Ahmadi, Babak Hamidian, Baran Kosari.
A young woman flees Iran to Istanbul were she meets a third generation Turkish-Iranian man. Together they try to obtain the money and fake passports that will help them escape to the West, but they are out of their depth and tragedy ensues. What distinguishes this ambitious exploration of the diaspora experience is Touraj Aslani and Javad Javali’s frenetic camerawork and the extensive use of jump cuts, perfectly representing the chaotic and fragmented lives of the main protagonists.

Wedding in Galilee Urs al-jalil
Sun 10 Feb at 8.40pm
Michel Khleifi • Israel/France/Belgium 1987 • 1h53m • Beta SP Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Nazih Akleh, Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury, Mohamad Ali El Akili, Yussuf Abu-Warda.
The elder of a Palestinian village under Israeli military rule asks for permission to host his son’s wedding. The Israeli commander agrees, on the condition that he and his officers are invited as guests of honour. When the elder informs the other villagers about the arrangement he has made, he meets resistance, and tensions grow as preparations are made for the day of the wedding.
Wedding in Galilee was the first major feature film to deal so directly with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and was released throughout Europe to great acclaim, winning major awards at Cannes and San Sebastian.

Haifa
Mon 11 Feb at 6.00pm
Rashid Masharawi • Palestine/Germany/Netherlands 1996 1h15m • 35mm • Arabic with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Mohammed Bakri, Ahmad Abu Sal’oum, Haim Abbass, Nawal Zaquot.
Haifa, named after the city of his birth, is now a confused madman, roaming through the streets of a dusty and dreary Gaza refugee camp, scaring children and swearing at the adults, believing that one day he will return to the city of his birth. Through his words and actions he becomes the voice of truth and an embodiment of Palestine’s tragic and painful history. Rashid Masharawi spent his early years working as a labourer and commuting between Gaza and Israel, and this experience has informed most of his films, bringing with it a humorous and accurate depiction of the daily travails of those living within the Occupied Territories.

PLUS SHORT

Four Songs for Palestine
Nada El-Yassir • Palestine 2001 • 13m • Digibeta
Arabic with English subtitles • 12A
An ode to survival in the West Bank.

Orange Suit Narenji Poosh
Tue 12 Feb at 8.40pm
Dariush Mehrjui • Iran 2012 • 1h47m
Digital projection • Persian with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Hamed Behdad, Leila Hatami, Mitra Hajjar, Ferdous Kaviani, Omid Roohani.
A successful photographer, inspired by his interest in feng shui, decides to rid Tehran of its garbage and clutter, and soon becomes a media phenomenon. When his estranged wife, a brilliant mathematician working in Scandinavia, finds out, she becomes concerned for the future of her son and a battle for custody ensues.
An enjoyable comedy-drama which manages to tackle some weighty issues, critiquing our throwaway society, social structures, gender roles, career pressures and the loss of family values.

Divine Intervention
Wed 13 Feb at 5.45pm
Elia Suleiman • France/Palestine/Morocco/Germany 2002 • 1h33m 35mm • Arabic, English and Hebrew with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language and moderate violence
Cast: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher, Jamel Daher.
Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings. Woven round this central story are a series of characteristically, for Suleiman, offbeat sequences of allegorical and Keatonesque comic vignettes: Father Christmas is chased by a gang of knife-wielding youths; a man repeatedly dumps garbage in his neighbour’s garden; another calmly deals with the firebombed car in his drive as if this was an everyday task; a son and mother watch a boiling pressure cooker; and a red balloon floats over Israel carrying the face of Yasser Arafat.

PLUS SHORT

Introduction to the End of an Argument
Jayce Salloum & Elia Suleiman • Canada 1990 • 45m • Digibeta • 15
An experimental first film from Suleiman, co-directed by Canadian-Lebanese visual artists Jayce Salloum, which contrasts clips depicting Arabs from Western films and news reports with documentary footage from the Occupied Territories.

Modest Reception Paziraie sadeh
Thu 14 Feb at 8.40pm
Mani Haghighi • Iran 2012 • 1h40m
Digital projection • Persian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Mani Haghighi, Saeed Changizian, Esmaeel Khalaj, Saber Abbar.
A bickering urban couple drive around remote Iranian mountain villages offering wads of cash. At first the money is given freely, but as the narrative progresses the couple attach increasingly humiliating conditions to this money, until reaching the bleakest of climaxes. Mani Haghighi’s film grabs our attention from the very first frame, and, even though the tone moves from anarchic comedy to dark tragedy, never truly lets go. Class divisions within Iranian society are laid bare whilst the corrupting influence of money is brutally exposed.

Paradise Now
Fri 15 Feb at 6.15pm
Hany Abu-Assad • France/Germany/Netherlands/Israel 2005 1h31m • 35mm • Arabic with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language and theme of suicide bombing
Cast: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel.
Childhood friends Khalid and Said are recruited as suicide bombers. As the day of their assignment approaches doubts coalesce in Said’s mind and he tries to find a way out of his commitment, whilst his friend remains resolute in his belief that angels are ready to carry him to paradise.
After the debacle surrounding Divine Intervention, Paradise Now became the first film to be nominated for a foreign language Oscar representing the Palestinian Authority.

Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
Sat 16 Feb at 1.30pm
Avi Mograbi • France/Israel 2005 • 1h40m • 35mm
English, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles • 15
Documentary
A group of young Israeli students are asked to imagine themselves in the ancient world, under siege from the Roman authorities in the fortress of Massada. What would they do? Surrender, fight or commit suicide – no-one chooses to surrender. This is essential, powerful and courageous filmmaking.

PLUS SHORT

Susya
Yoav Gross & Dani Rosenberg • Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory 2011 15m • DV-Cam • Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles • PG
Documentary
An old man and his son visit their abandoned village, now an ancient archaeological site.

Winter of Discontent El sheita elli fat
Sat 16 Feb at 6.15pm
Ibrahim El-Batout • Egypt 2012 • 1h34m
Digital projection • Arabic with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Moataz Mosallam, Amr Waked, Farah Youssef, Salah Hanafy.
Veteran director Ibrahim El-Batout looks at the causes of the Arab spring in this tale of police torture and repression in the lead up to the demonstrations at Tahrir square. Made only a few months after these momentous events, El-Batout’s film perfectly matches the energy, enthusiasm and hope that followed Mubarak’s resignation. Sensitively directed and yet unflinching in its representation of the Mubarak regime.

Poets of Protest
Sun 17 Feb at 3.30pm
Roxana Vilk & Yasmin Fedda • UK 2012 • 1h40m
Digital projection • Arabic and English with English subtitles • 15
Documentary
Executive Produced for Al-Jazeera English by the Scottish Documentary Institute, Poets of Protest reflects the poet’s view of the change sweeping the Middle East through its intimate profiles of contemporary poets and their poetry, as they struggle to lead, to interpret and to inspire. Including Palestinian Mazen Maarouf, Lebanese Yehia Jaber, Iraqi Manal Al-Sheikh and Syrian Hala Mohammed.
Following the screening there will be a Q&A with director Roxana Vilk.

Salt of This Sea Milh Hadha al-Bahr
Sun 17 Feb at 8.40pm
Annemarie Jacir • Palestine/Belgium/France/Spain/Switzerland 2008 • 1h49m • Digibeta • Arabic, English and Hebrew with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Dana Drigov, Edna Blilious.
When Brooklyn born Palestinian Soraya discovers that her grandfather’s savings were frozen following his exile from Jaffa in 1948, she is determined to reclaim her inheritance and makes the trip to Palestine.
Annemarie Jacir’s debut film is something of a polemic, pointing out the injustices inherent in the creation of the state of Israel, but it is nevertheless an important one, documenting the injustices of the past and their continuing impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations.

The Repentant El Taaib
Mon 18 Feb at 6.15pm
Merzak Allouache • Algeria/France 2012 • 1h27m
Digital projection • Arabic with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Nabil Asli, Adila Bendimerad, Khaled Benaissa.
The Repentant documents the immediate aftermath of the bloody Algerian civil war, when jihadist rebels were offered amnesty and named repentants if they laid down their arms and integrated themselves back into society. The story concerns Rachid, one such repentant, and his attempts at re-integrating into society, initially in his home town, where he is shunned and threatened by his neighbours, and then in the city, where he befriends a pharmacist with a tragic and mysterious past.
Merzak Allouache’s film opens on a slow fuse, slowly developing its principal characters, but as the narrative develops the past is revealed and the story is propelled toward its devastating climax.

Dubai_Citytellers (Francesco Jodice, 2010, 58m)
Tuesday 19 February 6pm at Stills (23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BP) - FREE
A shocking portrait of the Middle East’s key tourist destination and business city. Revealing the darkness of modern day slave labour that lies behind Dubai’s spectacular growth, Jodice’s documentary offers an incisive critique of ‘development’ as the motor of contemporary capitalism.
This special free screening is part of ECONOMY, an exhibition project presented across Stills (Edinburgh) and CCA (Glasgow). Examining how economic relations shape life, it addresses issues that range from migration, labour, sexuality and the crisis of democracy to the quest for alternative futures.
Visit www.economyexhibition.net to find out more.
Screening courtesy of GalleriaMichelaRizzo, Venice.

Checkpoint
Tue 19 Feb at 8.30pm
Yoav Shamir • Israel 2003 • 1h20m • Beta SP
Hebrew, Arabic and English with English subtitles • 12A
Documentary
The West Bank and Gaza Strip have been under Israeli military authority since 1967, and over three million Palestinians live under the Israeli occupation. From 2001 to 2003, Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir shot a documentary at checkpoints at Jenin, Nablus, Hebron, Ramallah, and Gaza. This courageous and unflinchingly honest film helps us to identify with both the Palestinians and the Israeli soldiers, who are all degraded by the checkpoint operations and the power plays of the occupying forces.

Lemon Tree Etz Limon
Wed 20 Feb at 6.10pm
Eran Riklis • Israel/Germany/France 2008 • 1h46m
35mm • Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
PG – Contains mild bad language
Cast: Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-
Michael, Tarik Kopty.
On the border of the West Bank, Salma, a Palestinian
widow, tends her lemon grove. When the Israeli defence
minister moves into a house across the border, the Israeli
security forces are ordered to cut down the trees. Salma
engages a young Palestinian lawyer to take on the Israeli
government.
Co-scripted by Israeli fi lmmaker Eran Riklis and Palestinian
journalist Suha Arraf and loosely based on a real-life event,
Lemon Tree is a celebration of self-determination and the
underdog, whilst also symbolising the broader Israeli-
Palestinian confl ict. The writing is sharp, the characters
sympathetically drawn and veteran actress Hiam Abbass
turns in a strong gritty performance as the resilient widow.

Habibi
Thu 21 Feb at 8.30pm
Susan Youssef • Netherlands/Occupied Palestinian Territory/USA/
United Arab Emirates 2011 • 1h25m • Digibeta
Arabic with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Kais Nashif, Yosef Abu Wardeh, Amer
Khalil.
Susan Youseff ’s debut feature fi lm is a contemporary
adaptation of the ancient Sufi poem Majnun Layla (The
Madman and Layla). The dreamy artistic Qay and the more
practical Layla fall in love whilst at university, however,
when they return to their village at Khan Yunis they fi nd
themselves suff ocated by the traditions of their home
town. Qay works as a labourer and, coming from a poor
family, is unable to convince Layla’s father that he is a
suitable suitor. The besotted Qay resorts to expressing his
love by painting verses from the love poem Majnun Layla
all over town.
Habibi is a beautiful and lyrical fi lm about forbidden love,
casting a light on the restrictive traditions and mores of
contemporary Palestinian life, and announces the arrival of
another major cinematic talent from the region.

PLUS SHORT

Innocence
Walid Salhab • UK 2011 • 10m • Mini-DV • U
Cast: Katherine Abuaglain, Aidin Poori, Robert Welsh.
A six-year-old Palestinian girl shares her falafel with a
homeless man on the streets of Edinburgh.


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Photography Exhibition: Building a Legacy of Hope: Children of the Gaza Strip – a Christian Aid Exhibition

Sunday 3 February - Sunday 24 February 2013, Filmhouse Cafe, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ
An exhibition of 17 photographs and accompanying artwork by children of the Gaza Strip, ‘Building a Legacy of Hope’ highlights the issue of child labour. It also showcases the work of Christian Aid’s partner organisation in supporting young people in the Gaza Strip to express themselves creatively and to advocate on issues relating to their protection.
Admission Free. Everyone Welcome.
Contact: Neill Walker, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 0131 331 4469, for more information