The Present
This film is presented alongside My Neighbourhood and Liwan in our Saturday Shorts programme.
Farah Nabulsi (2020) 24mins
November 20, 2021 6:00 pm
Oblong, Woodhouse Community Centre, 97 Woodhouse St, LS6 2NY
Starring renounced Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri (Wajib), The Present is a BAFTA-winning drama about a father and daughter setting out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift on their wedding anniversary. Between Soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy is it to go shopping?
Read The Guardian's piece on Farah here.
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