Silk Road Rising, Chicago Palestine Film Festival Screens LGBT-Themed BREAKING BORDERS Program Tonight

Join Silk Road Rising and the Chicago Palestine Film Festival tonight, January 31st at 8pm for an evening of screenings followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.

Featuring "The Imam and the Homosexual" (16 min) by Jamil Khoury and "City of Borders" (66 min) by Yun Suh.

The event is ONE NIGHT ONLY. Tickets: $15. To purchase tickets, click HERE.

ABOUT THE FILMS:

The Imam and the Homosexual (16 min)
Written and Directed by Jamil Khoury
Click HERE to view the video play.

The Imam and The Homosexual probes the "strange bedfellows" political alliance between Imam Mustafa Khan (played by Khurram Mozaffar), spiritual leader of a besieged Naperville, IL mosque, and Carl Baker (played by Nicholas Cimino), the gay son of the imam's chief nemesis. As Imam Mustafa struggles to reconcile his support for civil rights with his religious and cultural objections to homosexuality, Carl imagines the Muslim and LGBT communities uniting against their common enemies.

City of Borders (66 min)
Directed by Yun Suh
Click HERE to view a trailer.

In the heart of Jerusalem stands an unusual symbol of unity that defies generations of segregation, violence and prejudice: a gay bar called Shushan.

City of Borders follows the daily lives of the Israeli bar owner and four Israeli and Palestinian patrons as they navigate the minefield of politics, religion and discrimination to live and love openly. Set against the construction of the separation wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories and the struggle for a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, these four inter-woven stories reveal the contradictions and complexity of the struggle for acceptance.

Silk Road Rising is a proud inductee of The Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. As part of community outreach, we create and host conversations that impact LGBT members of Silk Road communities and our allies. Click HERE to read an essay by artistic director Jamil Khoury, reflecting on Silk Road Rising's induction into The Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.

Join us on January 31, 2015, as we share two films and have a discussion with the filmmakers about LGBT issues in Muslim, Jewish, and Palestinian communities. We're located at Pierce Hall, Historic Chicago Temple Building, 77 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602.

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