BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:495@palestinecampaign.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131202 DTSTAMP:20131023T133025Z URL:https://palestinecampaign.org/events/cinemapalestino-2013-sheffield/ SUMMARY:CinemaPalestino 2013 in Sheffield DESCRIPTION:CinemaPalestino 2013 in Sheffield\n\nWe aim to hold our 5th ann ual film festival for Palestine on 29th November - 1st December 2013. Cur rently we have some award winning documentaries we will show\, including A rt Violence and  A World Not ours.\n\n \;\n\nCinemaPalestino celebrat es it’s 5th Year in Sheffield\n\n\n \;\n\nTickets have just gone on sale at Sheffield’s Showroom Cinema for this year’s CinemaPalestino Fi lm Festival starting on 29th November 2013. This year promises to be one o f the most exciting to date offering a feast of documentary and drama film s ranging from the camps of Lebanon to the occupied territories of West Ba nk and Gaza Strip\, exploring issues that affect us all - love\, home maki ng\, and freedom - all under the shadow of a military occupation that dist orts all aspects of daily life for the people of Palestine.\n\n \;\n\n Recent years have seen a huge growth in Palestine’s film industry and Ci nemaPalestino draws on some of the most recent examples\, opening with mul ti award-winning Art Violence (by Batoul Taleb\, Mariam Abu-Khaled &\; Udi Aloni). Following the lead of their beloved director and activist\, Ju liano Mer-Khamis\, murdered in 2011 outside the Freedom Theatre in the Wes t Bank’s Jenin Refugee Camp\, a group of young Palestinian actors use th eir imagination in an unpredictably brutal environment creating an artisti c rebellion\; a vivid and brave portrayal of a young\, active generation o f Palestinians.\n\n \;\n\nSaturday’s programme combines some fascina ting film shorts\, with the hard-hitting character driven documentary When the Boys Return (directed by Tone Anderson) – which follows a group of teenage boys joining a therapy group after being released from Israeli pri sons\, with Ann Marie Jacir’s latest drama production\, When I Saw You - “one of the best works to come out of the current explosion of filmmaki ng in the Middle East” Indiewire.\n\n \;\n\nThe festival ends on Sun day with Flying Paper – co-produced with young filmmakers in Gaza\, foll owing the uplifting story of youth on a quest to shatter the Guinness Worl d record in the most kites ever flown!!! It is all rounded off with Mahdi Fleifel’s A World Not Ours an intimate\, and often humorous\, portrait o f three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh\, in sou thern Lebanon - a sensitive\, and illuminating study of belonging\, friend ship\, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm .\n\n \n\nCinemaPalestino\, now in it’s fifth year\, is a unique collab oration between Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign\, Yorkshire Palest ine Cultural Exchange\, and Sheffield Showroom Cinema. Festival Tickets ar e available from the Showroom box office.\n\n \;\n\nHilary Nelson\n\nS heffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign\n\nSee www.showroomworkstation.org. uk\; www.ypce.org.uk\n\nContact: Hilary Nelson\, or joan.parsons@showroomw orkstation.org.uk\n\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n\nNext year we plan to apply to the new "Film Forever" fund to enable us to increase o ur audiences\, speakers\, and film choices. For this year\, a little mode st sponsorship from interested individuals would enable us to improve our publicity and also match the continued support shown by our valued partner s\, the Showroom Cinema.\n\nIf you would like to sponsor the cinema Pales tino you can either\n\n send a cheque made out to YPCE\,  c/o Shena Moo re\, 10 St James' St\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire S1 2EW. Please write ' cinemaPalestino' on the back of the cheque\n or transfer to YPCE bank acc ount 08-92-99 / 65142262. Please use the reference 'cinpal'. Please email enquiries@sheffieldpsc.org.uk : we would like to thank you personally.\n\n Please put the date in your diary\, and let us know if you would like to s ponsor CinemaPalestino by any amount\, large or small. CATEGORIES:Priority END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR