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Budrus

It takes a village to unite the most divided people on earth

Budrus, an acclaimed, award-winning feature documentary film will be shown by the REEL Justice Film Series (of the Unitarian Church in Westport) and the Interfaith Council of Westport and Weston.  Refreshments will be provided before and after the film.  Doors open at 7:30.

Ayed Morrar is a Palestinian community organizer who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Ayed Morrar’s 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines.

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 Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today.

In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat. 

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Budrus includes diverse voices-- from the Palestinian leaders of the movement and their Israeli allies to an Israeli military spokesman, Doron Spielman, and Yasmine Levy, the Israeli border police captain stationed in the village at that time.

While many documentaries about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict either romanticize the notion of peace, or dwell entirely on the suffering of victims to the conflict, this film focuses on the success of a Palestinian-led nonviolent movement.

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