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For the second day of 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥, we’re revisiting one of Palestine’s most beloved and celebrated novels,𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒇𝒂 by Ghassan Kanafani, adapted into a film of the same name by legendary filmmaker Kassem Hawal.📅 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 3 | 𝟕 𝐏𝐌
📍 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐬𝐫𝐢 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞 (𝟐𝟓𝟏 𝐀𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐎𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭)
🗨️ English subtitles translated into Arabic and Arabic subtitles translated into English
Set in 1967, the story unfolds when Palestinian refugees are given the opportunity to revisit the places they were expelled from in 1948.Saeed and Safiyya, a Palestinian couple forced out of Haifa in 1948, return to the home that once belonged to them. There, they meet Miriam, a Holocaust survivor and Jewish Israeli citizen who now lives in their house. She and her husband had moved in shortly after the Palestinian couple was uprooted.Their return to Haifa is driven by the hope of discovering what happened to their baby, Khaldun, whom they left at home on that April morning in 1948, unaware that neither of them would be able to return. The abandoned baby was adopted by Miriam and her husband, who gave him a Hebrew name: Dov. Now, he is a soldier in the Israeli army.
✨ A rare opportunity to experience this film on the big screen, a chance you may not get again. We’ve also invited our friends at Maktaba bookshop to bring a selection of Ghassan Kanafani’s books for you to browse and explore
🎫 This is a donation-based event. We’ll provide the donation link at the door.
To access the full program, three days of screenings: https://www.instagram.com/p/DenA6ppmDis/?img_index=1
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251 Avenue des Pins O, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2W 1R6
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