Boston Palestine Film Festival 2008

A Palestinian family, reuniting in their hometown of Bethlehem, discuss their own political reality as part of the Palestinian Diaspora. The Palestinian national dish “Mloukhiah” plays a starring role.

Larissa Sansour Born in Jerusalem 1973, Larissa Sansour studied Fine Arts in Copenhagen, London and New York, and graduated with a master’s degree from New York University. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue, and utilizes video, photography, experimental documentary as well as the Internet. Sansour’s work has been exhibited worldwide in galleries, museums as well as film festivals. Her most notable shows include the Tate Modern in London, UK, in May 2007 and the National Museum of Queen Sofia in Madrid, Spain, in September 2007. Besides videos, she has recently been commissioned to create a mega-billboard for the Images of the Middle East festival that took place in Copenhagen in the summer of 2006. She lives and works in Copenhagen.