The Ethnic Cleansing of Bethlehem

bristol | peace | event notice Thursday April 12, 2012 11:47 by Marian Connolly marianbristol at yahoo dot co dot uk

The  Road to Bethlehem

Join us for an evening of film, discussion and
Bethlehem with Leila Sansour

At The Central Baptist Church, Union St, Bristol BS1

7.30pm Monday 14th May 2012

Leila Sansour left Bethlehem as a teenager pledging she will never return.  In 2004 she went back home to make a film.  The journey changed her life. 

The film is shot over four Christmases in the life of Bethlehem as, piece-by-piece,hundreds of slabs of concrete are lowered into place to build a wall that will seal the city from the outside world. The story shows the impact on Leila and her community.

Sansour is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Open Bethlehem, a non-governmental
foundation established to promote and protect the life and heritage of the city of Bethlehem. 

She is best known in the UK for her feature length documentary “Jermy Hardy versus the Israeli Army”