Tues 26th Feb 7.00pm - Médiathèque, Institut français
Wed 27th Feb 6.30pm - ArtsZone

France / Israel / Palestine 1998. 60 min. 12A

Simone Bitton's portrait of Palestinian Mahmud Darwish charts a series of interviews with the great man who is more than just a committed poet. Darwish has become the poetic expression of his people's heritage, and the voice of their memory in the fig tree, the aroma of coffee, and the songs on the hilltop, He creates a new Andalusia, full of humanism, tolerance and eroticism - an Andalusia no longer a wanted place, nor a desired golden age, but a contemporary state of mind.