Kino Tavast is organising a charity screening at BioRex on Tuesday 16 April at 18:00 in collaboration with BioRex and Flying Paper filmmakers Roger Hill and Nitin Sawhney. 

Viewers can pay the price of a ticket they can afford the best. Prices are 10€, 25€, 50€, 75€ and 100€. You can still purchase a minimum 5€ ticket from the door if there are those left. The screening will have 119 seats. Tickets can be purchased from Kino Tavast’s online shop. 

None of the organisers will charge any costs, all proceeds from the screening will be donated to Doctors Without Borders as an unshortened donation for Gaza. 

The idea for the charity screening came from HAMK’s students who had heard about the shows in Helsinki and Tampere through their networks. The exemplary active contact of the HAMK students with the film directors made the event possible,” says Ulla Lappalainen, secretary of Kino Tavast.

Doctors Without Borders and many others are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Even famine is threatening there, especially for children, as the delivery of food aid has also been a challenge. Now people in Hämeenlinna can join by participating in the screening.

Flying Paper – a film about children’s Gaza 

Filmed between 2010 and 2013, Flying Paper is a story of Palestinian children in Gaza who fly kites. The children are making their kites and aiming to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. 

The protagonists, teenager Musa and aspiring journalist Abeeria, as well as the other children and their everyday lives, all convey a sense of enthusiasm for their expertise and hope for a better future.

In Northern Gaza, Seifa village and Jabalya refugee camp, the challenges of everyday life were already difficult during the 2010-2013 period. The optimistic film proves that kite culture is a form of resistance for children and young people. It shows children’s resilience and willingness to act as representatives of their own culture. In the background, the political situation is rippling. 

The directors of Flying Paper, Roger Hill and Nitin Sawhney, got to know the Palestinian youth in the film through the Voices Beyond Walls media programme, and shot the film in collaboration with young people.

BioRex Verkatehdas 16 April at 18:00 Flying Paper (2014). Charity screening 52 min. Directed by Roger Hill and Nitin Sawhney. Produced by Flying Paper Productions. Language Arabic. Subtitles in English. Tickets from Kino Tavast’s online shop (kinotavast@tapahtumiin.fi/) or at the door from 17.45 on the day of the screening in cash or by card.