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Back by popular demand, TPFF is proud to present the runner-up and winner of the TPFF Audience Choice Award 2008: Salt of This Sea and Slingshot Hip Hop. These films made their Canadian premieres at TPFF to sold out crowds. This is your chance to be riveted by these two acclaimed films and support TPFF 2009!
Film Screening Times: Salt of This Sea (7pm), Slingshot HipHop (9pm)
Tickets: www.tpff.ca/tickets.htm, Toronto Women’s Bookstore (73
Harbord Street, Toronto) and Palestine House (3195 Erindale Station
Road, Mississauga)
Prices: $10 regular or $7 student/senior/unwaged per film, Early bird
promotion (online only): $15 for both films
Contact: www.tpff.ca / tickets@tpff.ca
Film Descriptions:
Salt of This Sea directed by Annemarie Jacir, is the story of Soraya, an Arab-American woman who moves to Palestine when she learns her grandfather’s savings were frozen in a bank in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. There, she crosses paths with Emad, a young
Palestinian seeking to leave the country for good. To escape the constraints of the situation in Palestine and to earn their freedom, Soraya and Emad take things into their own hands, even if this means breaking the law. The film was an "Official Selection, Un Certain
Regard" at the Cannes Film Festival 2008.
Slingshot Hip Hop directed by Jackie Reem Salloum, is a documentary that tells the stories of young Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From
internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, these young people cross the borders that separate them through music. The documentary was nominated for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize.
