Screening of Just Vision's Peabody Award-Winning Film "My Neighborhood"
Friday December 6
Time: 4:00 - 6:00pm
Location: LL2 Screening Room, Hagop Kevorkian Center
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
Directed by Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi
Followed by a discussion with Just Vision's Director of Programming, Suhad Babaa
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Contact kevorkian.center@nyu.edu with questions.
From the critically acclaimed creators of Budrus and Encounter Point, My Neighbourhoodchronicles the story of Mohammed El Kurd, a Palestinian teenager whose family isforced to share a section of their East Jerusalem home with Israeli settlers. WhenIsraeli activists arrive in his neighborhood to join residents in protests against thesettlements, Mohammed comes of age in the midst of unrelenting tension with his neighbors and unexpected cooperation with Israeli allies in his backyard.