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‘A House in Jerusalem’ tells the story of a Jewish-British girl Rebecca and her father who move to Israel into a West Jerusalem home, where she encounters the ghost of a Palestinian girl named Rasha whom only she can see. Rasha's family was expelled from that home during the 1948 Palestine war known as the Nakba. Eventually, Rebecca makes a visit to Bethlehem's Aida Camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to repay a past debt after her father had thrown out Rasha's doll, and in search of the house's historical owners. The film's screenplay was written by Muayad and Rami Musa Alayan, two Palestinian brothers.

The film is written and directed by Muayad Alayan, a Palestinian whose family was among the roughly 750,000 Palestinian Arabs who fled or were expelled from what had become Israel during the 1948 Palestine war, also known as the Nakba, and not allowed to return. Alayan's family history inspired the film. He came up with the idea for the film in 2009 while passing through his family's former neighbourhood in West Jerusalem, Israel, where he saw what looked like a newly immigrant Jewish family moving into one of the city's old houses.

The film is the first ever UK/Palestine joint production

Following the screening there will be an online Q & A with Director Muayad Alayan

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