Dear John,

Join MPAC’s Hollywood Bureau, Pillars Fund and Open Screenplay on Sunday, April 11th for a screening and discussion on the Oscar and BAFTA nominated short film The Present. 

“A deeply moving depiction of the routine, soul-breaking humiliation of life in the Occupied [Palestinian] Territories, The Present benefits from the stolid presence of Saleh Bakri (The Band’s Visit) as Yusef, a beaten but not quite broken man trying to navigate a checkpoint and bring home a gift for his wife.”