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	The 2013 Pre Festival Season takes place from April 11th through to April 26th, with exclusive screenings and talks ocurring each week at three great London venues. Scroll down for information on each event and for ticketing details. Download Pre Festival Season eflyer (pdf) here HUNDRED FACES FOR A SINGLE DAY *Christian Ghazi's iconoclastic 1971 masterpiece* Thursday April 11, 8:30pm HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE Now Booking The first of three screen events leading up to the 2013 London Palestine Film Festival is this rare treat from the archives, presented in partnership with Hackney Picturehouse. Hundred Faces for a Single Day, 1971 (click on image for film synopsis) Never before screened in the UK, Hundred Faces for a Single Day is the avant garde masterwork that challenged the limits of militant filmmaking during the Palestinian revolutionary era. Multiple plotlines merge and dissolve as Ghazi collides documentary and abstract approaches to mount a blistering critique of the revolution's decadent political elites. With a stunning experimental soundtrack and a daring lead turn from Madonna Ghazi, this is militant filmmaking at its most exhilarating and incendiary. Hundred Faces for a Single Day, 1971 (click on image for film synopsis) With an introduction by Nick Denes from the Palestine Film Foundation. Tickets CHILD PRISONERS: SCREEN TALK *When The Boys Return, followed by a Panel Discussion* FREE EVENT Thursday April 18th, 18:30 Amnesty International UK HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION CENTRE EC2A 3EA The second event of the 2013 Pre Festival Season is presented in association with Amnesty International UK, and is dedicated to the subject of Palestinian youth prisoners in Israeli military custody. Following a screening of Tone Andersen's When the Boys Return, an expert panel will discuss the legal, social, and health issues raised by Israel's detention of minors. When the Boys Return, 2012 (click on image for film synopsis) When the Boys Return is a compassionate study of a cohort of Palestinian teenagers from the West Bank undergoing a challenging process of adjustment along with a course of therapy after their release from Israeli detention. A panel discussion chaired by Amnesty International researcher Saleh Hijazi follows the film. Discussants include Adah Kay, co author of Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children, Greg Davies, coauthor of a 2012 report by a British legal delegation to Palestine Children in Military Custody, and Chris Doyle, director of CAABU, The Centre for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding. This event is free and unticketed. However, space is limited, so please arrive in good time to be sure of a seat. MASSAKER *Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim, & Hermann Theissen, 2005, 98min, Documentary* Friday April 26, 8:30pm RITZY CINEMA, BRIXTON Now Booking The third and final screen event of this year's PreFestival Season is this viscerally powerful portrait of six perpetrators of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, presented in partnership with the Ritzy, Brixton. Massaker, 2005 (click on image for film synopsis) Between September 16 and 18, 1982, for two nights and three days, the killers of Sabra and Shatila went about their crimes. Massaker is an unflinching portrait of six perpetrators of this most notorious episode of mass murder. Intense, claustrophobic, and often unsettling, the film explores the content of collective violence, exposing the mental dispositions of the killers, and asking how a political environment has continued to shield them from justice, and even remorse. 'A rare insight into the banality of murder' The Guardian Tickets