Plaza Community Cinema
£5
Book Tickets
Join us for a family film screening and workshop, in association with At the Library.
Films
I am from Palestine (Palestine-USA, 2023)
As Saamidah, a young Palestinian-American girl, anxiously starts her first day of school, she finds her identity in question when faced with a world map that doesn’t include her homeland.
Director – Iman Zawahry
Producer – Rifk Ebeid
OLIVIA (Algeria, 2024)
Olivia follows a woman uprooted from her olive land and forced into exile with her son. In an unfamiliar world, she struggles to belong while trying to protect him, until she is faced with the decision to return, leading her on a final journey.
Director – Shawki Boukef
BAHR (Egypt, 2025)
While grieving the loss of his wife, a father struggles with faith in a chance to reconnect with her; the journey is portrayed as death being a beginning rather than an end, a simple line separating two worlds.
Director – Belal Samra
All Aboard (Lebanon-France, 2024)
In order to follow his dream, Ray come illegally aboard the Nucleus Express at the expense of Copper, a passenger who has his ticket for the trip.
Directed by: Joe Azar, Sasha Grandet, Sami Haouas, Camille Lecour, Julie Marquet, Anaïs Mascherpa, Christina Varlokost
Workshop
‘Map Without Borders!’ Join us for a family creative workshop exploring roots, memory, and belonging through drawing, storytelling, mapping, and traditional Karagoz-inspired shadow puppetry. No art experience needed. Everyone is welcome.
(Doors) – 1.30pm Time (Start) – 2.00pm
Suitability – all, with parental guidance.
Content warning – Themes of grief, displacement, animal threat & flashing animated images.
This screening is organised in partnership with At The Library, a programme of artist-led workshops, projects, commissions and happenings in Sefton Libraries, as part of one of their core projects: The Colour of Pomegranates.
Library website here (https://atthelibrary.co.uk/
Venue:
Plaza Community Centre, 13 Crosby Road North, Waterloo, L22 0LD
