[van-announce] TONIGHT Feb. 29: Film Screening "Salt of this Sea" - first Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 Event!

[Charlotte Kates]

Join SPHR-UBC tonight for the first event of Israeli Apartheid Week 2012!

*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29*
*Film Screening: “Salt of this
Sea”*<https://www.facebook.com/events/239021086186911/>
6:00 pm, Woodward 6, Woodward Library, University of British Columbia
A Film by Annemarie Jacir

Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian
refugees, discovers that her grandfather’s savings were frozen in a bank
account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Stubborn, passionate and
determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of
“returning” to Palestine.

  Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to
confront her own internal anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose
ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints
that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take
things into their own hands, even if it’s illegal. (French title: "Sel de
la Mer")

This is the first event of Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 in Vancouver.  Israeli
Apartheid Week is an international series of events held each March in
cities and campuses across the globe. This year, Vancouver will be joining
more than 70 cities around the world in raising awareness about the system
of apartheid in Israel and building the growing international movement of
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns. For more information
about IAW Vancouver, please visit the BIAC
website<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/iawvancouver/>or
theInternational IAW<http://vancouver.apartheidweek.org>site.
*Don't miss the many upcoming events!*

Film’s official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SaltofthisSea

Event sponsored by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR –
UBC)<https://www.facebook.com/pages/SPHR-UBC/190741272305>

Awards
• CANNES - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Un Certain Regard, 2008
www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/56057.html

• FIRST PRIZE - BEST FILM
Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, Italy 2009

• FIPRESCI PRIZE - INTERNATIONAL CRITICS AWARD
International Federation of Film Critics, 2008

• BEST FEATURE FILM
Olympia Film Festival, 2010

• SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Osians Asian & Arab Film Festival, 2008

• BEST FIRST FILM
Traverse City Film Festival, 2009

• SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Oran International Festival of Arab Cinema, 2009

• AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival, Patois 2010

• RANDA CHAHAL PRIZE
Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, 2008

• BEST SCREENPLAY
Dubai International Film Festival, 2008

• BEST OF FEST SELECT
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival 2009

• AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Houston Palestine Film Festival, 2009

• AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD - BEST FEATURE
Chicago Palestine Film Festival, 2009

• BEST FILM
Cairo Refugee Film Festival, 2009

• BEST ACTRESS (Suheir Hammad)
Amal EuroArab Film Festival, 2009

• AUDIENCE CHOICE RUNNER UP
Toronto Palestine Film Festival, 2008

•PALESTINE'S OFFICIAL OSCAR ENTRY
FOR BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM, 2008

• SOPADIN FINALIST
Grand Prix Best Screenplay, 2007

• CINEMA IN MOTION PRIZE, 4 AWARDS
San Sebastian Film Festival, 2007



-- 
Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com