Friendly Fruit Presents...The Encampments + Q & A w/ Mahmoud Khalil

🍉Welcome to the Friendly Fruit Film Series!🍉

A new in-person film series at Cobble Hill Cinema launched by Watermelon Pictures & Friendly Strangers. For our 3rd screening we're proud to present, The Encampments, a film by Kei Pritsker & Michael T Workman.

There will be a Q&A with activist Mahmoud Khalil after the screening.

From Watermelon Pictures & Executive Producer Macklemore, The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses. Featuring detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistleblowers, and organizers, the film captures the deeper stakes of a historic moment that continues to reverberate across the globe.

This film series is one of many crucial first steps to creating a consistent solidarity for underrepresented films and filmmakers from around the world. This is your chance to help show the industry that there is an audience consistently showing up for these stories. Let’s give these stories their much deserved air time and ingrain our solidarity into our everyday routine.

produced and created by

Laith Zuaiter from @thefriendlystrangers_ & @watermelonpictures