Event

Screening followed by a discussion with Nadav Greenberg of Just Vision

Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film produced by Just Vision about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat.

Watch the trailer here.

Sponsored by: The Middle East Center, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Cinema Studies Program, Graduate School of Education, GSE Student Government, GAPSA, and Documentaries and the Law Program at the University of Pennsylvania.