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IMPORTANT: Home Video, Institutional Orders, and Screening Rights
The "home video" price denotes the pricing for private personal use.
For institutional purchases, please e-mail us and request a copy of our institutional catalog, which includes institutional pricing for films that we are authorized to sell to institutional buyers.
Most filmmakers charge a fee for a public screening; please make sure you secure the needed permission for such. We are authorized to sell such licensing for some of the films, and provide the relevant contact for others.
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Arna's Children ***HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED!***
Juliano Mer Khamis, 2003, 84 minutes, DVD
Five
years after his mother's death, Juliano Mer Khamis returns
to the Jenin refugee camp to discover what happened
to the children's theater group she founded. Shifting
back and forth in time, Mer Khamis's film juxtaposes
the sweet-faced young boys with the militants and martyrs
they become. "Arna's Children" reveals the
tragedy and horror of young lives trapped by the circumstances
of occupation.
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Children of Fire
Mai
Masri,
1990, 50 minutes, VHS
When filmmaker Mai Masri returned to her hometown of
Nablus after a fourteen year absence, she discovered
a new generation of Palestinian fighters: the children
of the Intifada. "Children
of Fire" captures their courageous story on film
and paints a daring portrait of the Palestinian uprising.
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Frontiers of Dreams and
Fears
Mai
Masri,
2002, 53 minutes, DVD
Shot during the
liberation of South Lebanon and the beginning of the
Al Aqsa Intifada, "Frontiers of Dreams and Fears"
accompanies two young girls on an extraordinary journey
to the borders of exile, which separate them from each
other and from their homeland.
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Gaza Strip
James Longley, 2002, 74 minutes
Gaza Strip follows a range of people and events following
the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,
including the first major armed incursion into "Area
A" by IDF forces during this intifada. The film
is filmed almost entirely in a verite style, presented
without narration and with little explanation, focusing
on ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians and
pundits. More observation than political argument, Gaza
Strip offers a rare look inside the stark realities
of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military
occupation.
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Tale of the Three Jewels
Michel
Khleifi, 1995, 107 minutes, DVD
This feature
film tells the story of Yussef, a twelve-year-old boy
who lives in an imaginary world of his own and often
escapes from the surrounding violence to the beautiful
Gaza countryside. One
day he meets a ravishing gypsy girl with whom he falls
in love. When Yussef declares his intention of marrying
her when they grow up, she tells him that he must first
find three jewels missing from her grandmother’s
necklace, which was brought from South America by her
grandfather.
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The Children of Ibdaa
- To Create Something Out of Nothing
S.
Smith Patrick,
2002, 29 minutes, DVD
This documentary
shows how members of the dance troupe from Dheisheh
refugee camp use their performance to express the history,
struggle, and aspirations of the Palestinian people,
specifically the fight to return to their homeland.
The film offers insight into their families’ displacement
from their villages, the physically and emotionally
stressful aspects of life in a refugee camp, and the
unique experience of participating in the politically
motivated dance troupe.
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The Children of Shatila
Mai
Masri,
2002, 53 minutes, DVD
With a focus on the lives of children in the Shatila
refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, this documentary
examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, life in the
refugee camps, and the lasting effects of war.
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