Falasteen on Film in Collaboration with pymbritain and macbirmingham present watermelonpictures The Encampments, Michael T Workman and Key Pritsker’s brave, powerful documentary chronicling the 2024 US university protests in solidarity with Palestine.

We are honoured to be joined by pymbritain representatives & Birmingham student organisers who led local actions, for a conversation reflecting on their experiences and the film before the screening. As a community cinema, we were honoured to host an outdoor screening in solidarity with Gaza Heart students last summer. The student uprisings provided a much needed morale boost on a global scale when the encampments rose up.

Gaza, 2007. Yahya, a young student, forges a friendship with Osama, a charismatic restaurant owner with a big heart. Together, they start peddling drugs while delivering falafel sandwiches, but they are soon forced to grapple with a corrupt cop and his oversized ego…