[HCCN] Film Blue Hill Friday 2/27, Palestine

[Judy Robbins]

reminder: Peninsula Peace & Justice Film Friday evening Blue Hill  
Library, 7:00 p.m.


Arna’s Children To Be Shown in Blue Hill


	Arna’s Children will be shown at the the Blue Hill Public Library on  
Friday, Feb. 27, at 7pm.  The film is about a theater group for  
Palestinian children living in the Jenin refugee camp, established by  
Arna Mer Khamis, a Jewish woman married to a Palestinian Arab.  Much  
of the film was made during the six years when the children were  
young, and that footage is intercut with film of the story of what  
happened to the children years later.  The program is sponsored by  
Peninsula Peace and Justice.  All are invited.  There will be  
refreshments.  For information, call 326-4405.

	Arna’s son, Juliano, was one of the directors of the theater.  He  
filmed rehearsals and performances over a six year period.  Five  
years after Arna’s death, and three years after the theater closed,  
Juliano says he “returned to the ruins of Jenin with my camera, to  
see what happened to the children I knew and loved...my film tries to  
tell their stories and to understand their choices.”
	
	Variety says "[Arna’s Children is] a must-see documentary.  Sure to  
spark controversy for its straightforward presentation of the  
Palestinian struggle, [it] limns a devastating group portrait of the  
legacy of the occupation.”
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