(FIERTÉ NATIONALE: DE JÉRICHO VERS GAZA)

IFI and Hugh Lane Gallery present Fierté Nationale: De Jéricho vers Gaza, a film by Sven Augustijnen. The work follows Hassan Al Balawi, a Palestinian diplomat in Brussels, as he returns home for the fifteenth anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, the historic leader of the PLO. Augustijnen returns to Ireland a decade after his Hugh Lane Gallery exhibition; his political, historical and social themes constantly challenge the genre of the documentary.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Sven Augustijnen, moderated by Alice Butler, co-director of aemi.