Budrus + Together for Peace Talk

Presented in partnership with Together for Peace with a discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian struggle for peace. Budrus is an award-winning documentary 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 2007 T4P (www.t4p.org.uk) hosted the Film Festival screening of Encounter Point, a documentary by the same company, about the Families Forum in Israel and Palestine, followed by an interview with the film’s Director, Ronit Avni. This was the spur for Yaakov Atik, a member of the Leeds Jewish community and an Israeli citizen, to instigate ongoing dialogue sessions between Jews and Muslims in Leeds, and also within the Leeds Jewish community. Yaakov is on the UK board of Windows for Peace (http://www.windowsforpeaceuk.org/). To find out more about these sessions please contact hello@t4p.org.uk.

Following the film audience discussion will start with members of the dialogue group talking about their particular responses to the issues raised by the film.