Director Nahed Awwad

Facilitated by journalist and cinema blogger Samah Bsoul
Monday, 14 December | 14:00
Language: Arabic (English subtitles); discussion is in Arabic
Place: Zoom
Link: https://zoom.us/j/99070258150

The documentary explores the Jerusalem Airport, occupied by the Israeli army in 1967. Situated on the Jerusalem–Ramallah road, the airport stood five minutes away from Ramallah, and 10 minutes from Jerusalem. Today, on what used to be the eastern end of the airport runway, stands the Qalandia checkpoint, blocking the Jerusalem–Ramallah road and making it a dead end.
Filmmaker Nahed Awwad discovers that this sad place wasn’t always so. In the 1950s and 60s, it received daily international flights, especially from the Arab world. The old images of the airport clearly and painfully contrast with the bitterness of the walled off location today.

Awwad returns to this location to conjure its prosperous past, in an attempt to understand its present, and to escape its painful reality.