SAVE THE DATE: FILM SCREENING OF ‘THERE IS ANOTHER WAY’
We will be showing this film on Friday 21 November 2025 (doors open 6:30pm) at St Chad’s parish hall, Otley Road,Far Headingley, Leeds, LS16 5JT
For a third year in a row, SPARK is sponsoring one of the films in this year’s Leeds Palestinian Film Festival. It is very difficult to know what we can do about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. All deaths are to be mourned whether Palestinian or Israeli. However, there is a genocide going on in Gaza and it needs to be called out and we need to be clear that what the Israeli Government is doing in Gaza is morally repugnant.
Showing solidarity with Palestinians through supporting this film festival is a very small action that we can take, but it is something that has been repeatedly mentioned by Palestinian visitors in recent years. It shows both that we care and that we want to understand the reality of the situation beyond the propaganda messages put out by Hamas and the Israeli defence Forces.
The film this year has been chosen by the Leeds Diocese Pax Christi group in consultation with the Film Festival committee. It is called “There is Another Way”. The film follows the members of Combatants for Peace. This organisation, nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes, is an extraordinary bi-national group of former enemy combatants – Israelis and Palestinians – working together during an ongoing armed conflict. Confronted with the devastation and escalating violence of October 7th and the war in Gaza, the very core of the movement faces great challenges in showing that there is another way. The first question they must move past relates to their own beliefs…is this possible?
SPARK is making this happen with financial support from the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion