The Middle East Film Series, co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Program, is offering a select number of FREE tickets to a screening of When I Saw You (Jordan/Palestine, 2012), presented by the Boston Palestine Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
E-mail cmesoc@fas.harvard.edu by SATURDAY 10/19 AT 12PM to request up to 2 free tickets to the screening. The Museum of Fine Arts is located at 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Tickets will be available to be picked up at the main entrance (on Huntington Avenue) of the museum starting at 2:30pm on Sunday.
Watch the trailer here:
About When I Saw You:
Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in “temporary” refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses until they would be able to return, they wait, like the generation before them who arrived in 1948. With difficulties adjusting to life in Harir camp and a longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek searches a way out, and discovers a new hope emerging with the times. Eventually his free spirit and curious nature lead him to a group of people on a journey that will change their lives.
