Invitational lecture offers an a timeopportunity for audiences to view a documentary with a literary artist and have an in-depth conversation with the invited author over on documentary documentaries and literature.
* Invited Author – Kim Hun (novelist)
* Date & Time – SetemperSeptember 11 (Saturday) 1 pm
* Place – Cinus Ichae 8th Theater

Asheen – Still Alive in Gaza, documentary chosen by novelist Kim Hun

Switzerland | 2010 | 86min | Nicolas Wadimoff

If your homeland has been ruined, your families family members have been killed before your eyes, and you are still to live under a constant barrage of bombings, then, how would you cope with the situation? This documentary, which that records the life in the Gaza District in the aftermath of war, offers a hint glimpse at theof answer to the that question. Bombing starts at the center of a village. Surprisingly, however, the children are delightfully absorbed in drawing rather than trying to escape in terror. The teachers also avoid controlling the students by diverting their attention from the ongoing situation: instead, they make their pupils laugh by playingperforming clowns in pierrot Pierrot costumes and bursting balloons each moment time the classroom resounds with a the detonation of bombings. In thisThat way, the children of Gaza learn how to face, not evade, the a harsh reality. There is are a strong-minded little girl who avows she will care for casualties if her house is hit by a bomb, and people who, by making music and operating an amusement park, would never give up culture and entertainment by making music and operating amusement park, even though they suffer from privations of foods and gasfuel. Asheen – Still Alive in Gaza is the story of the people who do not just try to survive but endeavor to live and practice a true life upheld by hope. This is simply why Palestinians, who are living in the world???s largest prison and isolated from the outside world, do not forsake their lives. But their reason for living is a the strongest one: that is hope.

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