The borders we cross

By Maria Gregoriou

The Home for Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus in Nicosia, will be hosting a screenings of the films The Syrian Bride and Westwind on the occasion of the International Day of Peace.

The 2004 film Syrian Bride, directed by Eran Rilkis, will be screened at 7pm on Monday.

The story deals with a Druze village (on the Israeli-Syrian border) wedding and the troubles the politically unresolved situation creates for the personal lives of the people in and from the village.

The movie’s plot looks at the Arab-Israeli conflict through the story of a family divided by political borders, and explores how their lives are fractured by the region’s harsh political realities.

After the first screening there will be a reception at 8.30pm.

The event will then move to the Goethe-Institut Cyprus at 9.15pm where the 2011 comedy drama Westwind, directed by Robert Thalheim, will be screened.

While training for sculling championship at summer camp in Hungary in 1988, East German teenage twin sisters meet some young men vacationing from Hamburg. In the meeting of east and west the bond between sisters is tested.

Overcoming Borders
Film evening on World Peace Day. September 21. Home for Cooperation, Nicosia, and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus, Nicosia. 7pm. Free. Tel: 22-674607

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