Pax Christi Michigan
is pleased to co-sponsor the showing of
Monday, Nov. 16th at 7:00 p.m.
Rm. 113 in the Swanson Academic Center on the Alma College campus
My So-Called Enemy follows six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls committed to justice and mutual understanding after participating in a women's leadership program called
Building Bridges for Peace
. This heart and mind-opening film, from Emmy® Award-winning director Lisa Gossels (
The Children of Chabannes
), documents how the young women's transformative experience
of knowing their "enemies" as human beings in the United States meets with the realities of their lives back home in the Middle East.
Through the coming-of-age narratives of Adi, Gal, Hanin, Inas, Rawan and Rezan, audiences see how creating relationships across emotional, ideological, religious and physical borders are first steps towards resolving conflict. My So-Called Enemy presents the complexities of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through a human lens - and the possibility and hope that come from listening to each other's stories.
A film about building bridges of understanding in our own communities, My So-Called Enemy
offers audiences profound messages about tolerance, inclusion and respect, conflict prevention and resolution - and the vital role of women in peacemaking.
Lisa Gossels,
the filmmaker who made this award-winning film, will be there to show the documentary & then take questions.
The event is part of Alma's continuing effort to develop itself a capability to work for conflict resolution, especially related to the Middle East.
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