The Fabulous Picture Show - 'Postcards from Tora Bora'
Watch 'Postcards from Tora Bora' at the Everyman Cinema Club in Hampstead for free
The Fabulous Picture show is a free event during which a film is screened and afterwards the audience is invited to discuss some issues raised by the film.
On Friday, March 21st, there will be a special screening of 'Postcards from Tora Bora'.
'Postcards from Tora Bora': At the height of the Cold War, the Osman family frantically escapes from Afghanistan while leaving almost everything behind. In the ensuing chaos, their only suitcase filled with family photos is stolen. Now, after two decades of living in America, Wazhmah Osman, a young Afghan-American woman returns to her childhood home. Armed only with rapidly fading memories, she recruits some unlikely and reluctant guides to put together the pieces of her past.
On an alternately sad and humorous quest, she encounters confused cabbies, the enthusiastic former minister of the tourism bureau, a museum director that archives land mines, and a group of angry street vendors. As Wazhmah desperately searches for any tangible evidence of her former life, the journey leads her to many unexpected places. Amidst the rubble and destruction, she finds her estranged father who in the aftermath of war chose his country over his family. On the road, Wazhmah frequently finds herself at a strange intersection where cultures clash, identities are mistaken, and the past violently collides with the present....
After the screening, audience members will have the chance to discuss the issues raised by the film with its co-directors, Wazhmah Osman and Kelly Dolak, in a Q&A session hosted by journalist Amanda Palmer.
The film will be screened at the Everyman Cinema Club in Hampstead, doors open at 12pm. You can apply for tickets through Standing Room Only.
How to get there
The closest tube stations are at Kentish Town and Tufnell Park.
If travelling by bus the 134 and 214 serve Highgate Road.
