The Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK and the Palestine Film Foundation invite you to join us at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London on Sunday April 13th for a soaring double-bill…
FLYING PAPER Nitin Sawhney & Roger Hill / 2013 Documentary / 71min
+ A SPACE EXODUS Larissa Sansour / 2009 Fiction / 5min
FLYING PAPER documents a spectacular quest by Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip to break the World Record for the most kites ever flown. Co-produced with young Palestinians trained by the filmmakers through a youth media programme (Voices Beyond Walls), the film is a celebration of creative resilience. Scored by the co-director’s namesake, renowned British composer Nitin Sawhney, Flying Paper mixes animated sequences with breathtaking footage of the record-breaking bid and warm portraits of the film’s protagonists. A captivating journey into Gazan kite culture – borne aloft by the playful humour and indomitable spirit of the kiteflyers themselves!
A SPACE EXODUS adapts a passage of Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey, following the director on a phantasmagorical journey through the stars – the first Palestinian into space. Sansour’s moon-landing evokes Armstrong’s (“a small step for a Palestinian, a giant leap for mankind”), but this witty short touches on experiences of displacement and statelessness as much as it does those of space travel or moon-landings…
Presented by the Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK and the Palestine Film Foundation.