Freedom to Run

Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series

Freedom to Run, a feature-length documentary by Glaswegian filmmakers Dr Cairsti Russell and Stephen Sheriff, follows the Palestinian running group Right to Movement (RTM) and a group from Glasgow as they train for and run both the Palestine and Edinburgh marathons. The two groups of runners support each other as they run both the Palestine and Edinburgh Marathons and on this journey, the runners discover they are not so different, but they live very different lives.

Freedom to Run is a cultural exchange and documentary project showing how the restrictions on freedom of movement affect life in Palestine. Two groups of runners, one from Palestine and one from the UK get to know each other whilst training for two marathons, one in Bethlehem and one in Edinburgh, Whilst in Palestine the UK runners learn about the impact of the restrictions on everyday life for their new found friends and then welcome those friends to Scotland to help them tell their story.