May 7 at 6:30pm | Featuring prominent Palestinian actor, Salejh Bakri, the Badri family have escaped the pollution and social unrest of Beirut by seeking refuge in a mountain home they have built. Their utopia is destroyed when the construction of a landfill begins next door.


Preceded by: THE LITTLE TEA SHOP 
2020, dir. Matteo Servente & Molly J. Wexler | USA, 17 min. | In English

Suhair Lauck, a Palestinian immigrant and mother, took over The Little Tea Shop in 1982 in Memphis, TN, where she cultivates an atmosphere of warmth and magic.


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