Imagine you are a refugee trying to make a new life in Edinburgh. Better still, take a new look at the city with people who really are refugees. The film ‘Long Way From Home’ does just that and it is showing at Red Eye film club in Pilmeny Youth Centre at 7.30pm on Friday 3 July.
Without shrinking from reality, the documentary is a celebration of the life of refugees in Edinburgh. The film, beautifully produced on a low budget by Pilton Video, was made by the refugee drama group IkaZe in collaboration with The Welcoming in 2008.
Jon Busby of The Welcoming along with one of the IkaZe film makers will be joining Mike Cowley, organiser of Red Eye, to take part in discussion after the film.
As ever, this is a free event. All are welcome.
[...] Mike Cowley (a member of Leith Open Space who runs the Red Eye Cinema club) to include the film A Long Way from Home in this year’s film programme at Pilmeny Youth [...]
[...] As always The Welcoming has drawn up a programme of events which are both truly welcoming and rightly challenging. The week’s programme starts on Sunday with a film made more recently and much closer to home: A Long Way from Home showing at the Filmhouse on Sunday at 2.30pm – invites us to experience the problems of three asylum seekers from Columbia, Spain and Rwanda trying to make a new life in Scotland (The film, beautifully produced on a tiny budget by Pilton Video, was made by the refugee drama group IkaZe in collaboration with The Welcoming in 2008 and shown at the Red Eye film club last year). [...]