Budrus: Silverdocs Film Festival

Submitted by alecr on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 5:23pm
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Date: 
Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 4:00pm
Location : 
Maryland

Budrus in DC!
8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910

We're coming to DC! Please join us at the Silverdocs Film Festival on Thursday evening, June 24th, at 7:15pm and on Saturday, June 26th, at 4:00pm at the AFI Silver Theater 2 in Silver Spring, MD. Tickets are on sale now. The screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions with the filmmakers and protagonist/nonviolence leader Ayed Morrar. Help us pack the theaters by spreading the word.

Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat. 

Find more information here.