About this event
Screen with no Borders
Screen with No Borders brings together communities in Sussex and beyond to connect, engage and immerse themselves in the stories, people, landscapes and cultures of Global Majority countries. We create nourishing evenings with film and open conversations to explore themes such as justice, migration, love, memory and identity, through a shared curiosity for our rich and diverse world.
Screen with No Border’s ‘Palestine on film’ season:
Happy Holidays (Scandar Copti, 2024, 123 min)
Four interconnected characters share their unique realities, highlighting the complexities between genders, generations, and cultures. Rami, a Palestinian from Haifa, is dealing with his Jewish girlfriend's sudden change of heart about her planned abortion. His mother, Hanan, is facing a financial crisis and becomes entangled in complications while seeking compensation for her daughter Fifi's accident. Miri is forced to confront her daughter's depression while also working to undermine her sister's pregnancy with Rami. Fifi grapples with the guilt of hiding a secret that risks her family's reputation and her burgeoning relationship with Dr. Walid.
Directed by the Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti, and inspired by real events, the film offers a nuanced portrayal of the complex realities of Palestinians who are living inside Israel. Depicting the everyday lives of Palestinians, and Israeli Jews, in the mixed city of Haifa it tells a rarely heard stories of standing up to the oppression of both patriarchy and militarism.
Film screening with short introduction starts at — 7:00pm
Post screening conversation — 9:15pm – 10:00pm
