UK Film Screenings: Gaza a Story Of Love and War with Mike Joseph and Sami Abu Salem

In 2023, Balfour Project hosted the first season of Mike Joseph's audio series, KEYS A Troubled Inheritance. Balfour Project now supports the cinema release of his filmed encounter with Gaza journalist Sami Abu Salem - GAZA A Story of Love and War.

Two journalists meet to share stories over a Zoom link. One is Welsh and unable to get into Gaza. The other is Palestinian and unable to get out. As they talk, a very personal history of the Palestinian Nakba is narrated, from the expulsions of 1948 to the killing streets and tent cities of 2024.

A generation ago the journalists' mothers escaped two different catastrophes - the Holocaust in 1939-45 and the violent expulsion of Palestinians in 1948. We hear remarkable connections in the stories. Then their talk reaches a most unexpected question: Is coexistence possible?

Out of the ashes of war and genocide, this meeting becomes an exchange of impossible hopes.

With best wishes,

The Balfour Project Team

Screenings

Bath - Little Theatre, August 14 www.picturehouses.com/cinema/little-theatre-cinema

Fishguard - Theatr Gwaun, August 24 https://theatrgwaun.com/production/wales-premiere-of-gaza-a-story-of-love-and-war/

Builth Wells - Wyeside Arts Centre, September 3, 4, 5 www.wyeside.co.uk/cinema-1

London - Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley, September 8 https://mwldan.co.uk/whatson/cinema

Cardigan - Theatr Mwldan, September 20, 21, 22, 26 https://mwldan.co.uk/whatson/cinema

Tywyn - Magic Lantern, Oct/Nov dates t.b.a. https://mwldan.co.uk/whatson/cinema

Cardiff - October 20, venues t.b.a. https://mwldan.co.uk/whatson/cinema

More venues to follow