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DTSTAMP:20091125T110157Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081205T204500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081205T215600
SUMMARY:LAILA'S BIRTHDAY
DESCRIPTION:Judge Abu Laila (Mohamed Bakri) is forced to\nbecome a taxi d
 river when the government\nruns out of money to pay for his wages. On\nt
 he day of his daughter Laila’s seventh\nbirthday\, his wife insists that
  he needs to be\nhome early with a present and a cake. Abu\nLaila has no
 thing else on his mind than\ncompleting this mission. But the daily life
  in\nPalestine is a bit chaotic and takes him in\nmany other directions 
 before he gets home.
CATEGORIES:Feature Films
LOCATION:Palace Cinema
URL:http://sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008/films/lailasbirthday_sydneypale
 stine2008
UID:175787076-sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008
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DTSTAMP:20091125T110157Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081206T160000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081206T172800
SUMMARY:SLINGSHOT HIP HOP
DESCRIPTION:Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palest
 inians living in the West Bank\, Gaza and inside Israel as they discover
  Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupa
 tion and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gend
 er norms and generational differences\, this is the story of young peopl
 e crossing the borders that separate them.
CATEGORIES:Documentary Feature, Feature Films
LOCATION:Palace Cinema
URL:http://sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008/films/slingshothiphop_sydneypal
 estine2008
UID:174842725-sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008
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DTSTAMP:20091125T110157Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081206T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081206T194900
SUMMARY:SALT OF THIS SEA
DESCRIPTION:Soraya\, 28\, born and raised in Brooklyn\,\ndecides to retur
 n to live in Palestine\, a\ncountry that her family was exiled from in\n
 1948. On arriving in Ramallah\, Soraya tries to\nrecover the money left 
 in an account by her\ngrandparents but meets with refusal from the\nbank
 . Her path then crosses that of Emad\, a\nyoung Palestinian whose ambiti
 on\, unlike\nhers\, is to leave the country for good. To\nescape the con
 straints linked to the situation\nin Palestine but also to earn their fr
 eedom\,\nSoraya and Emad take things into their own\nhands\, even if thi
 s means breaking the law. In\nthis quest for life\, we follow their trai
 l\nthrough the History of a lost Palestine.
CATEGORIES:Feature Films, Films
LOCATION:Palace Cinema
URL:http://sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008/films/saltofthesea_sydneypalest
 ine2008
UID:174764061-sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008
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DTSTAMP:20091125T110157Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081207T143000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081207T154500
SUMMARY:LAILA'S BIRTHDAY
DESCRIPTION:Judge Abu Laila (Mohamed Bakri) is forced to\nbecome a taxi d
 river when the government\nruns out of money to pay for his wages. On\nt
 he day of his daughter Laila’s seventh\nbirthday\, his wife insists that
  he needs to be\nhome early with a present and a cake. Abu\nLaila has no
 thing else on his mind than\ncompleting this mission. But the daily life
  in\nPalestine is a bit chaotic and takes him in\nmany other directions 
 before he gets home.
CATEGORIES:Feature Films
LOCATION:Palace Cinema
URL:http://sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008/films/lailasbirthday_sydneypale
 stine2008
UID:174761102-sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20091125T110157Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081207T161500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081207T182000
SUMMARY:SLINGSHOT HIP HOP
DESCRIPTION:Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palest
 inians living in the West Bank\, Gaza and inside Israel as they discover
  Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupa
 tion and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gend
 er norms and generational differences\, this is the story of young peopl
 e crossing the borders that separate them.
CATEGORIES:Documentary Feature, Feature Films
LOCATION:Palace Cinema
URL:http://sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008/films/slingshothiphop_sydneypal
 estine2008
UID:174828405-sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20091125T110157Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081213T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081213T174000
SUMMARY:EDWARD SAID ON ORIENTALISM
DESCRIPTION:Edward Said's book Orientalism has been\nprofoundly influenti
 al in a diverse range of\ndisciplines since its publication in 1978. In\
 nthis engaging and lavishly illustrated interview\nhe talks about the co
 ntext within which the\nbook was conceived\, its main themes\, and\nhow 
 its original thesis relates to the\ncontemporary understanding of "the O
 rient"\nas represented in the mass media.\n\n"Edward Said is one of the 
 most influential\nscholars in the world." Columbia News
CATEGORIES:Documentary
LOCATION:Shed Theatre
URL:http://sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008/films/edwardsaidonorientalism_s
 ydneypalestine2008
UID:174907556-sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20091125T110157Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081213T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081213T195000
SUMMARY:SALT OF THIS SEA
DESCRIPTION:Soraya\, 28\, born and raised in Brooklyn\,\ndecides to retur
 n to live in Palestine\, a\ncountry that her family was exiled from in\n
 1948. On arriving in Ramallah\, Soraya tries to\nrecover the money left 
 in an account by her\ngrandparents but meets with refusal from the\nbank
 . Her path then crosses that of Emad\, a\nyoung Palestinian whose ambiti
 on\, unlike\nhers\, is to leave the country for good. To\nescape the con
 straints linked to the situation\nin Palestine but also to earn their fr
 eedom\,\nSoraya and Emad take things into their own\nhands\, even if thi
 s means breaking the law. In\nthis quest for life\, we follow their trai
 l\nthrough the History of a lost Palestine.
CATEGORIES:Feature Films, Films
LOCATION:Shed Theatre
URL:http://sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008/films/saltofthesea_sydneypalest
 ine2008
UID:174764171-sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20091125T110157Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081214T163000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081214T172000
SUMMARY:REEL BAD ARABS
DESCRIPTION:This groundbreaking documentary dissects a\nproblematic aspec
 t of cinematic history that\nhas run virtually unchallenged from the\nea
 rliest days of silent film to today's biggest\nHollywood blockbusters. F
 eaturing\nacclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen\, the film\nexplores a long 
 line of degrading images of\nArabs - from Bedouin bandits and submissive
 \nmaidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding\n"terrorists" - offering 
 devastating insights\ninto the origin of these stereotypical images\,\nt
 heir development at key points in US\nhistory\, and why they matter so m
 uch today.
CATEGORIES:Documentary
LOCATION:Shed Theatre
URL:http://sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008/films/reelbadarabs_sydneypalest
 ine2008
UID:174906805-sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008
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DTSTAMP:20091125T110157Z
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081214T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20081214T185000
SUMMARY:WRITERS ON THE BORDER
DESCRIPTION:The documentary is about eight writers from\nthe Internationa
 l Parliament of Writers who\nvisit renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud\nDa
 rwish in Palestine as an “example of fine\nlinguistic collaboration.”
CATEGORIES:Documentary
LOCATION:Shed Theatre
URL:http://sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008/films/writersontheborder_sydney
 palestine2008
UID:174846094-sydneypalestine.bside.com/2008
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