Screening of 'Arna's Children' by Juliano Mer-Khamis, June 27, Bombay
Chandni Parekh
Vikalp@Prithvi Presents
Arna’s Children (2003)
This film tells the story of a theatre group that was established by Arna Mer-Khamis. Arna comes from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab, Saliba Khamis. On the West Bank, she opened an alternative education system for children whose regular life was disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theatre group that she started engaged children from Jenin, helping them to express their everyday frustrations, anger, bitterness and fear. With his camera, Arna’s son Juliano, director of this film, filmed the children during rehearsal periods from 1989 to 1996. Later, he goes back to see what happened to them. Yussef committed a suicide attack in Hadera in 2001, Ashraf was killed in the battle of Jenin, Alla leads a resistance group. Juliano looks back in time in Jenin, trying to understand the choices made by the children he loved and worked with. Shifting back and forth in time, the film reveals the tragedy and horror of lives trapped by the circumstances of the Israeli occupation.
The director of the film, Juliano Mer-Khamis, was assassinated in Jenin on 4 April 2011 by masked militants.
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The film won the ‘Best Documentary Feature’ award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004.
Screening Details:
On Monday, 27 June, 7 PM
At Prithvi House, Opp Prithvi Theatre, Janki Kutir, Juhu Church Road, Bombay
Entry Free, On A First-Come-First-Seated Basis
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