Screening and Post-Film Discussion with Filmmaker Adam Zucker

Sunday, February 16 at 3 p.m.

Goggleworks Film Theatre

201 Washington St. Reading

$5 per person

Cash accepted at door

 

Presented in partnership with Islamic Center of Reading.

 

On January 27, 2017, less than a week after taking office, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven predominately Muslim countries from entering the United States. The action was a strike against religious freedom unprecedented in this country's history. Protesters rushed to airports where passengers were being detained while legal proceedings against the ban began.

 

For the next year and a half Muslim Americans and their many allies protested a string of executive orders declaring a travel ban. With a series of setbacks in the courts, the Administration continued to fine-tune the edicts in attempt to pass legal scrutiny. As the lives of American Muslims were upended and family members remained separated by borders, the Muslim ban slowly made its way to the Supreme Court. The trajectory of the ban provides the film's backbone.