This week (16th – 21st June) is Refugee Week, the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.

To celebrate Refugee Week, screenings and film festivals have been organised across the UK to celebrate the creative works of those seeking sanctuary.

A World Not Ours, by Danish-Palestinian filmaker Mahdi Fleifel was scheduled to be shown at the Armadillo Youth Centre in Yate, but this and four other screenings were cancelled due to pressure and threats of protest by a far right and anti-immigration group in Bristol.

We think this film should be shown anyway! 

A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family. Filmed over more than 20 years by multiple generations of the same family, A World Not Ours is more than just a family portrait; it is an attempt to record what is being forgotten, and mark what should not be erased from collective
memory.

BASE Bristol have graciously invited us to host this screening, despite pressure from a hateful minority of far right voices. This screening is free, but all donations will go directly to the Palestinian Childrens Relief Fund

7pm Film Screening this Saturday at BASE. Doors open at 6.30pm. Free entry, please make donations to https://give.pcrf.net/fundraiser/7360987