About this Event
Hillingdon PSC will show two appealing short films, followed by a discussion with the Director and other speakers.
El Yajour:
This short film is about a town in historical Palestine near Haifa city, situated in Al Karmel mountain. Mr. Jihhad's family were forced to leave their home town in 1948 and ended up in Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon where he was born. Mr. Jihhad has never had a proper home and has found himself becoming an asylum seeker in the UK. The film allows us to see Mr. Jihhad's ambitions and hopes.
Screened at the Glasgow and Diaspora Manchester Film Festivals.
Arthur Balfour and Me:
Arthur Balfour was born in 1848 on the family’s Scottish Estate in East Lothian. In 1916, he was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Fatima, then a 35 year old asylum seeker living in Scotland, travels to Balfour’s Estate. Arthur Balfour and Me is a visual and emotional journey through history and present time, an untold story about how a politician’s action has, to this day, affected Fatima’s life, as a young woman from the Middle East.
Nominated for a BAFTA (2007). Shown at the Edinburgh, Glasgow, Diaspora Manchester, Iran and Palestine Film Festivals.
About Fatima Helow:
Fatima Helow is a British Palestinian Filmmaker, Producer, Director and journalist who lives in London. She was born in the infamous Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. She survived the massacre of Sabra and Shatila in 1982. Her parents fled Haifa in May 1948, 2 weeks before the state of Israel was declared and ended up in refugee camps in Lebanon. Her father and two brothers were killed during the ‘War of the Camps’ in 1985. Fatima was 10 years old and living in Shatila camp when the massacres at Sabra and Shatila took place. She later came to the UK and studied Film, Media and Journalism at the University of Stirling.
- Refreshments will be available to purchase
- £5 donation for waged ticket
- Entry free for students, retired and unemployed
- Age rating: 16+
- All funds raised will go to The Sameer Project: an aid initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, supplying emergency shelter and aid to displaced families in Gaza.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Brunel Lecture Centre, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 5.00
