The Little will screen 3000 Layla (3000 Nights, Mai Masri, Occupied Palestinian Territory / France / Jordan / Lebanon / United Arab Emirates / Qatar 2015, 103 min.) followed by a panel discussion including one of the film's actors, Hana Chamoun, as part of the 2016 Witness Palestine Film Series.

• Since 1948 over 700,000 Palestinians have been detained in Israeli prisons
• In November 1983, the PLO obtained the release of 4,765 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in exchange for 6 Israeli soldiers capture in south Lebanon
• There are now over 6,000 Palestinian men, women, and children in Israeli prisons

This is the story of one of them, Layla Asfour, who is arrested in the opening scene, blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken to an Israeli women's detention center housing Israeli and Palestinian prisoners. After significant interrogation, she gets a lawyer, a perfunctory trial, and a sentence of 8 years in prison, about the time mentioned in the title.

[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Sep-12]