When I Saw You + Director's Q&A

When I Saw You + Director's Skype Q&A

classified 12A

Bristol Palestine Film Festival Presents...

Film

Please note: This was screened in March 2015

Director
Annemarie Jacir
Cast
Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri
Details
98 mins, 2012, Palestine / Jordan / Greece / UAE

Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in “temporary” refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses until they would be able to return, they wait, like the generation before them who arrived in 1948. With difficulties adjusting to life in Harir camp and a longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek searches for a way out and discovers a new hope emerging with the times, leading him to a group of people on a journey that will change all of their lives.

When I Saw You is the story of people affected by the times around them, in search of something more. A journey full of adventure, love, humour, and the desire to be free, but most of all this is a story about that moment in a person's life when he wakes up and finds the whole world is open and everything is possible - that moment you feel most alive. It is a journey of the human spirit that knows no borders.

Followed by a Skype Q&A with director Annemarie Jacir.


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