The Lemon Tree – ‘true’ story of a Palestinian woman who lives on the border with Israel, her neighbours being the Israeli defence minister whose secret service consider her lemon grove to be a safety hazard to the minister and want to cut it down. Not knowing the film was based on a true event, made me sceptical about the plot while watching, but non the less this was a good film to see, and I hope not stereotyping the characters too much. There was a wedding on in the Photography Museum which made any excursions from the cinema interesting as I had to walk through a very finely dressed wedding party, whooping it up, whilst my headspace was deep in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

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Underground Shorts Vol 1: Some good shorts – Matt Burn’s ‘Arachnotelephotophobi’, a horrific animation of a woman afraid of spiders in her TV. Shelly Wain’s ‘The Love Nest’ – a gloriously colourfull animation of an aristocrat and his caged bird. ‘Boxed In’ – Will Becher’s animation of an old man and a mouse. Last: Monkey Shoe by Mark Jackson for a last chuckle.