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Free virtual screening of the documentary film "120 KM" directed by Waseem Khair

  • Palestine Museum US 1764 Litchfield Turnpike, Suite 200 Woodbridge, CT, 06525 United States (map)

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This event starts at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 7:00 PM Palestine time
The screening will be followed by Q&A discussions with the audience.

About the Film
30 Minutes, English/Arabic Subtitles, 2021

In 2015, Palestinian artists Osama Atwa and Waseem Khair travel to Lebanon for an artistic tour in the refugee camps and in Beirut, Waseem, coming from an area under Israeli authority, and Osama, coming from an area under Palestinian authority, both arrive to the refugee camps in Lebanon despite the Israeli authority`s prohibition from travelling there after it occupied the land of Palestine in 1948, deserted it`s people, banned them from returning to their land, and banned the minority that stayed in from meeting them.

The tour of three weeks was enough for them to find themselves in a place that resemblesthem, and to create many questions, Confuses and contradictions. They both can`t realize how a small land area of Lebanese land becomes home to them. After finishing the tour they go back to Palestine, and a new journey begins, facing trials and Israeli Interrogation rooms because of a visit not further than 120 km between two countries. Their artistic tour costs them 20 months in Israeli imprisonment.

About the Director
Waseem Khair is a Palestinian actor and director, born in 1986, he produced his first short film

“throe” in 2014. He worked with the Palestinian cooperation for radio and television directing many television shows, now days he is preparing for his second short live action “between deaths”.

Waseem Khair has a huge career of theatrical shows in directing and acting, he also won prizes for best director and best actor from international theatrical festivals.