We open the 21st annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival with a small reception featuring live Oud music, photos and mingling. Festivities begin at 5:45 p.m. The Film will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m.

COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON
2021, dir. Mounia Akl
Lebanon, 106 min. 
In Arabic with English subtitles / Format: Digital 

Featuring prominent Palestinian actor, Saleh Bakri, the Badri family have escaped the pollution and social unrest of Beirut by seeking refuge in a mountain home they have built. Their utopia is destroyed when the construction of a landfill begins next door.

Preceded by short film THE LITTLE TEA SHOP
2020, dir. Matteo Servente & Molly J. Wexler
USA, 17 min.
In English

Suhair Lauck, a Palestinian immigrant and mother, took over The Little Tea Shop in 1982 in Memphis, TN, where she cultivates an atmosphere of warmth and magic.