15 - 30

NOV 2019

THE BARBICAN | CURZON SOHO | INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS | THE RIO l THE TABERNACLE | SOAS | P21

WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION + Q&A

Road to Palestine | Upper Gate

tuesday 19th November | 8:20pm
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, THE MALL, ST JAMES’, SW1Y 5AH

Road to Palestine
1985 l Layaly Badr l 7’
Seven-year-old Layla lives in a refugee camp outside Palestine. Her father was killed and she was badly injured from an air raid. We share the life of Layla and her friends, who tell us how they imagine Palestine despite them having never seen it.

Upper Gate
1991 l Arab Loutfi l 90’
Produced by: Cultural Council P.L.O / دائرة الثقافة لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية

“When I returned to Sidon in 1983 it had just been occupied. My sister destroyed several documents in a panic because the Zionist soldiers were coming, and I lost many of my mementos. Friends were killed and places I loved were destroyed. I wanted to capture memories that could not be destroyed. The city had survived and many people I knew were still living there and taking stock of their losses. Actually, everyone in the documentary was someone I loved, and so the film was in many ways an extended form of my memory”. Through people’s stories,The Upper Gate weaves the history of south Lebanon’s city of Sidon.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Arab Loutfi and Layaly Badr, chaired by filmmaker and founder of The Void Project, Azza El Hassan.

This event is co-hosted with the The Void Project.