Film Screening: This is Exile

You are warmly invited to our September Meeting where the focus will be:

Film: This is Exile

Thursday 8th September 2016 at 7:30pm

at Two Snowhill, Birmingham City Centre, B4 6GA

 

Register for free.

We are joining together with Wythall and Bourneville Amnesty groups to present a film screening of “This is Exile” about refugees, followed by a discussion of the issues and Amnesty’s new People on the Move campaign.

This Is Exile: Diaries of Child Refugees is an extraordinary, intimate portrait of the lives of child refugees forced to flee Syria’s civil war.  The documentary tells children’s stories in their own words, capturing the moving truth of how they deal with the loss and hardship of living in exile from their homeland.

This is Exile was funded by friends of Save the Children and filmed in Lebanon by the Emmy-award winning director Mani Benchelah.  Made by the independent production company Make Productions, the film offers an uncompromising portrayal of refugee children’s experiences.

Groups in the West Midlands have been helping build the campiagn for refugee rights for several years, and from September, People on the Move will be a key campiagn for Amnesty across the world.  So join us to learn more about the issues from the perspective of child refugees themselves, and then discuss how we can take action together.

Everyone is welcome to join us – we look forward to seeing you there.  If you are able, please register in advance for free.

Pre-meeting

If it’s you first time, or if you’d just like a friendly chat before the main meeting, we’ll be having a short pre-meeting 7:10-7:25pm at Costa Coffee on Comore Row (next to Snow Hill station). We’ll have a chat to welcome you, before heading over to the main meeting at 7:25 (so if you arrive later than that, just head straight over to Two Snowhill.)

Why not drop us an email at amnestybrum@gmail.com so that we know to look out for you and to be extra friendly!