You are invited to The Galilee Foundation’s charity screening of the critically acclaimed Palestinian film, “Alam” featuring a Q&A with director Firas Khoury.
Join us on February 22nd, 2 PM, at Vue Leicester Square, 3 Cranbourn St, London WC2H 7AL.
Ticket sales go towards much-needed funding for educational projects supporting young Palestinians.
Alam is a critically acclaimed story about Palestinian high school students in Israel, where friendship and youthful defiance become a powerful assertion of identity and resistance amid the struggles of Palestinian Citizens of Israel.
Event Programme
2:00pm doors open
2:30pm film starts
4:00pm Q&A with director Firas Khoury
Watch the trailer below:
Biography of Alam Director, Firas Khoury
Firas Khoury (b. 1982) is a Palestinian scriptwriter and director. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema. Among his short films are the award-winning Seven Days in Deir Bulus (2007) and Yellow Mums (2010). They were shown in festivals around the world, and also broadcast on TV channels, including ARTE. Alongside his directorial activity, Khoury is committed to disseminating Palestinian films and training young people. Khoury is a founding member of Group Falastinema, which develops film workshops and presents screenings throughout Palestine. His feature-length film The Flag received production grants of the CNC in France, the Doha Film Institute and the The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), and is due to be filmed in 2018. Firas is now also finalizing a feature film script which was written together with Hany Abu-Assad.
Synopsis Of Alam
Tamer and his friends are Palestinian high school students in a village in Israel, growing up under the constant weight of a past that remains painfully present. Daily life is shaped by inherited trauma, restricted opportunity, and a political reality that presses in from all sides, as protests and acts of resistance ripple through their surroundings. At school, they are expected to passively absorb lessons celebrating Israeli Independence Day, while the concurrent Palestinian day of mourning goes unacknowledged. Against this backdrop, Tamer and his friends are drawn in by their classmate Safwat and the charismatic new arrival, Maysaá, into a risky act of political defiance—one that challenges both authority and their own sense of responsibility.
In the buildup to this defining act, the film offers intimate glimpses of village life and the pressures bearing down on the friend group, revealing a narrowing horizon of possibility and a growing sense of urgency. Caught between adolescence and adulthood, Tamer is forced to confront what it means to grow up in a society where daily life is fraught with social and political consequence, and where personal awakening is inseparable from collective struggle.
