Thursday, 7th July

Festival Film: Son of Babylon

Hebden Bridge Picture House, New Road, Hebden Bridge

7.45pm to 10.15pm

£7 (£5)

Northern Iraq, 2003. Two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Ahmed, a 12-year-old boy begrudgingly follows in the shadow of his grandmother.

On hearing news that prisoners of war have been found alive in the South, she is determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from the Gulf War.

The film will be introduced by producer Isabelle Stead.

'warm, human and quietly devastating' (Time Out)

www.sonofbabylon.co.uk