Friday, May 25, 2007

Watching Movies in the Forest

On impulse yesterday we rented a car and bought tickets for the final event of the Israeli Eco-Film Festival. This event took place in the forest of Ben Shemen about 35 minutes drive outside of Jerusalem, near a town called Modi'in. The event started at 9PM. We parked our car and walked up a gravel path to find ourselves in a cleared gravel area with a large screen set-up and about 200 plastic outdoor chairs. The night was clear and the weather perfect. We first watched a strange and not very good animated short film called: The Man Who Planted Trees. The main film was An Inconvenient Truth. It was certainly a unique way to see films about the environment - sitting in a nature reserve under the moon. We highly recommend it!

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