Caldmore Garden Cinema – The Dupes – Palestinian Film Night
When: Sunday 4th June 2017 at 9.30-11.15pm
The Dupes (The Deceived)
The first Palestinian feature film – 1972 directed by Tewfik Saleh, based on Ghassan Kanafani’s 1962 classic novel Men in the Sun.
Set in 1958, 10 years after the Nakba, it gives an insight into an earlier time of Palestinian oppression. The film follows the journey of three Palestinian from a refugee camp in Iraq, across the desert hoping to find work in the oil boom in Kuwait. Ill treatment, humiliation, heat and checkpoints. Ghassan Kanafani was a writer, political activist and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The film was released the same year Kanafani was assassinated by a car bomb, he was age 36.
Black and White with English subtitles, 1 hour 46 minutes.
Remembering the Nakba – Walsall Kobar Friendship Association
FREE ENTRY
Bring your own snacks; tea and coffee available at the Community House. If the weather is good, it will be an outdoor screening – please wear layers and bring a blanket, it can get cool in the evening.
Caldmore Community Garden 