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Arts & Entertainment

My So-Called Enemy, Presented by the Talking Pictures Festival

Evanston's Talking Pictures Festival presents an exceptional lineup of independent films from March 8-11.

FREE EVENT!

What happens when your enemy becomes your friend? The non-profit “Building Bridges for Peace” brought together 22 Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls to participate in a women’s leadership program.  Many had lost family and friends in a long-lasting conflict that shapes their world and touches their daily lives. My So-Called Enemy follows six of the girls over the ensuing years and records how their experience in the program has affected them. Director Lisa Gossels creates a rare kind of film proving the transformative power of knowing “the other,” finding the good in one’s enemy, and how those bonds can be tested by events beyond anyone's control.

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