24 November, Charleroi: Focus Palestine – special film screenings

Friday, 24 November
9:30 am – “The Wanted 18”
8:00 pm – “3000 Nights”
Quai10
Quai Arthur Rimbaud 10
Charleroi, Belgium
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Two special film screenings organized in collaboration with the Plate-forme Charlero-Palestine.

The Wanted 18, 9:30 am

1987: On a cooperative farm, activists and 18 cows face down the Israeli army. An animated film that humorously tells the story of the Palestinian civil disobedience movement during the first intifada.

Film by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan

3000 Nights, 8:30 pm

In the 1980s, revolt erupts in an Israeli prison where Palestinian prisoners are held. Layal has been sentenced to 8 years for an incident in which she is innocent. She discovers she is pregnant and against all, she vows to keep her child.

Film by Mai Masri.

The films will be introduced and followed by discussions with young people from Charleroi who recently returned from Palestine: Claire, Deborah, Florence, Margaux, Meryem, Pauline, Sophie, Sorayda, Yasmine and Zuheir.

Organized with Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine: http://pourlapalestine.be