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Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, Running Time 30 minutes, 2021, with English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by discussions with the film director Louis Brehony.

About the Film
Kofia: A Revolution Through Music (2021) is an award-winning, internationally released documentary film about the Palestinian band Kofia (كوفية/'kuffieh'), formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, by songwriter George Totari, who fled his native Palestine in 1967. Facing racist Israeli colonisation, George and fellow Palestinian musicians teamed up with Swedish leftist performers and formed a band which would tour the world and release four albums dedicated to the Palestinian cause. Produced by Dr Louis Brehony, the Kofia film has enjoyed premieres in Palestine, Europe and North America and has impressed at international film festivals including Horizons Festival (Britain), Chicago Palestinian Film Festival and Al-Awda International Film Festival in Palestine, where the film won top prize for a documentary.

Louis Brehony

About Film Director
Louis Brehony is an activist, musician, researcher and educator, and a preeminent global scholar of Palestinian music. He is the director of the award-winning documentary film Kofia: A Revolution Through Music (2021) and has published widely on Palestine and political culture. He has family origins in Ireland and lives in Manchester, Britain.