Palestine Cinema Days
Where: Kickstart Arts, New Town
When: 1:30PM, November 2, 2025
Join us for free film screenings as part of the Palestine Cinema Days!
In collaboration with Filmlab Palestine, we're showing two films at Kickstart Arts in New Town. Come for one or both, choose your own adventure!
- 1:30pm Upshot (~35 minutes)
- 2:30pm When I Saw You (~90 minutes)
We'll have a short break in between the films.
About the films
Upshot by Maha Haj
After suffering unimaginable loss, Suleiman and Lubna retreat to an isolated farm, where they tend to their crops and engage in impassioned debates about their five children's choices - until one day a stranger arrives to reveal a harrowing truth.
When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir
Jordan, 1967.
Some people follow the masses, others the sun.
Tarek, 11, eccentric and unbounded, runs away from home in this search for freedom. A journey of the human spirit that knows no borders.
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.
When I Saw You is the story of people affected by the times around them, in search of something more in their lives. A journey full of adventure, love, humour, and the desire to be free, but most of all this is a story about that moment in a person‘s life when he wakes up and finds the whole world is open and everything is possible - that moment you feel most alive.