FILM SCREENING AND FUNDRAISER:
Aida Returns – عائدة, a film by Carol Mansour

Monday, March 18th. Doors open at 6:30pm; screening begins at 7pm. Food will be provided for iftar.

First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge MA. Mikelson Room (upstairs). Elevator access for accessibility (ring bell at #1 Church Street).

Suggested starting donation of $10 at the door. Fundraising for 1for3.org, a 501c3 registered charity in Massachusetts that has worked with Palestinian refugees in the West Bank for nearly 15 years.

Aida Returns is a poignant story of loss, return, and the Palestinian Nakba. It follows the journey of loss as the director's mother Aida struggles with losing herself to Alzhemer's, but finding solace in her "returning" to the Yafa and Palestine of her youth. This film is a tribute to the lost past of the director’s family, an attempt to restore part of both an individual and a collective memory, and a poetic nod and affirmation to all those exiled Palestinians forbidden from returning to their hometowns, even after death.

This screening is part of a global screening event on Aida's birthday. There will be a panel discussion following the film.

Presented by Jewish Voice for Peace Boston. Hosted by The Middle East Education Group at First Parish Cambridge.⁩