Hijacker, film screening on Leila Khaled of Palestine, today at 7:30 p.m., Concordia University, room H-110. 1455 de maisonneuve. metro Guy-Concordia

A film screening presented at Concordia University in Montreal, which will feature striking cinematic works on the Middle East, from the 2006 Israeli military attack on Lebanon captured by the celebrated Bid Noise Films from New York City, to the story of Leila Khaled, a Palestinian resistance fighter portrayed in film.

In 1969 Palestinian Leila Khaled made history by becoming the first woman to hijack an airplane. As a Palestinian child growing up in Sweden, filmmaker Lina Makboul admired Khaled for her bold actions; as an adult, she began asking complex questions about the legacy created by her childhood hero. This fascinating documentary is at once a portrait of Khaled, an exploration of the filmmaker’s own understanding of her Palestinian identity, and a complicated examination of the nebulous dichotomy between “terrorist” and “freedom fighter.”

An event taking place in the context of Tadamon!’s ongoing political campaigns operating in Canada, including the campaign for boycott, sanctions & divestment of the apartheid Israeli state and the campaign to challenge the listing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government.

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