Sunday April 13: FLYING PAPER + A SPACE EXODUS at Riverside Studios, London

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Sunday 13th April: FLYING PAPER + A SPACE EXODUS at Riverside Studios, London: http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?l=1392741687 View this email in your browser The Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK and the Palestine Film Foundation invite you to join us at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London on Sunday April 13th for a soaring double-bill...   FLYING PAPER Nitin Sawhney & Roger Hill / 2013 Documentary / 71min + A SPACE EXODUS Larissa Sansour / 2009 Fiction / 5min Riverside Studios Sunday 13 April 7pm VENUE MAP TICKETS FLYING PAPER documents a spectacular quest by Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip to break the World Record for the most kites ever flown. Co-produced with young Palestinians trained by the filmmakers through a youth media programme (Voices Beyond Walls), the film is a celebration of creative resilience. Scored by the co-director's namesake, renowned British composer Nitin Sawhney, Flying Paper mixes animated sequences with breathtaking footage of the record-breaking bid and warm portraits of the film's protagonists. A captivating journey into Gazan kite culture - borne aloft by the playful humour and indomitable spirit of the kiteflyers themselves! A SPACE EXODUS adapts a passage of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey, following the director on a phantasmagorical journey through the stars – the first Palestinian into space. Sansour's moon-landing evokes Armstrong's ("a small step for a Palestinian, a giant leap for mankind"), but this witty short touches on experiences of displacement and statelessness as much as it does those of space travel or moon-landings… VENUE MAP TICKETS   Presented by the Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK and the Palestine Film Foundation.   Share Tweet Forward to Friend COMING SOON... Coming up from the Palestine Film Foundation, our partners, and friends: March 27, Goldsmiths College, London: "Edward is still with us": Jean Mohr reflects on Edward Said in Palestine & After the Last Sky Talk, reception, exhibition viewing. Part of "Space and Gaze: Conversations with Jean Mohr and Edward Said in Palestine" 5pm-7pm, Small Hall, Richard Hogarth Building, Goldsmiths, SE14 6NW. Details June 13, Barbican Centre, London: Lena Chamamyan concert Celebrated Syrian-Armenian singer-songwriter Lena Chamamyan brings her distinct fusion of Jazz, Arabic, and Armenian styles to London. In association with the Palestine Film Foundation. Booking now - see Barbican website for prices. More   May 3, Riverside Studios, London: Kafr Kassem, Bourhan Alaouie, 1974 Save the date. A rare chance to see Lebanese director Bourhan Alaouie's classic dramatisation of the events surrounding the 1956 massacre of Kafr Kassem. With new and improved English subtitles. Booking online soon... Copyright © 2014 Palestine Film Foundation, All rights reserved.