Enlighten Palestine Films - Arna's Children & Citizen Bishara
(Tues 20st / 7:30pm / £3/£2)

Another benefit screening for the refugee education charity
(www.enlighten-palestine.org), bringing together the best in Palestine documentaries.

Tonight, the first Bristol screening of Israeli director Juliano
Mer-Khamis's ARNA'S CHILDREN (2003). Runner-up for the Audience Award at the International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam, this staggering film sees Khamis travel to Jenin, where his peace-activist mother, Arna Mer
(1929-1995), founded and led a theatre group of Palestinian children.
Juliano had helped direct the group, filming rehearsals and performances. Now, with the theatre long closed, he returns to discover the tragic stories of Arna's children. "Speechless. Silent. I could not move"- Electronic Intifada.

Also tonight, Simone Bitton's CITIZEN BISHARA (2001), in which Bitton
follows Palestinian citizen of Israel and parliamentarian, Dr. Azmi Bishara, through his Knesset work, his campaigns, and the dissemination of his ideas about citizenship and democracy. "A fascinating and important study,
engaging and illuminating, exhibiting the true art of the documentary" - Kamera.