One documentary screening a month, zooming in on a unique subculture that has changed the world. This month - Speed Sisters, a tear through the world of five women race car drivers.
Despite a tangle of roadblocks and checkpoints, a thriving street car racing scene has emerged in the West Bank. Held at improvised tracks – a vegetable market, an old helicopter pad, a security academy – the races offer a release from the pressures and uncertainties of life under military occupation. The fanfare and rivalry between cities brings spectators out in droves, lining rooftops and leaning over barricades to snap photos of their favorite drivers and to catch final times on the scoreboard. Take a drive through the lives of Marah, Betty, Noor, Mona and Maysoon as they compete against each other for the title, for bragging rights for their hometown, and to prove that they can live life on their own terms.
Limit of 20 attendees. Film not rated.
