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500 Dunam on the Moon
Rachel Leah Jones, 2002, 48 minutes, DVD
Ayn Hawd is a Palestinian village that was captured
and depopulated by Israeli forces in the 1948 war. In
1953 Marcel Janco, a Romanian painter and a founder
of the Dada movement, helped transform the village into
a Jewish artists' colony, and renamed it Ein Hod. This
documentary tells the story of the village's original
inhabitants, who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5
kilometers away in the outlying hills.
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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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Gaza Ghetto - Portrait
of a Palestinian Family
PeA Holmquist, Joan Mandell, Pierre Bjorklund, 1984,
82 minutes, VHS
Even as the political status of Gaza and the West Bank
evolve, the uncertainties and harshness of land confiscations
and military occupation remain key. Produced in 1984,
this classic explores the very issues that caused the
intifada and continue to this very day. Moments of tragedy
and joy are intercut with scenes of Israeli politicians,
soldiers. Abu El-Adel's grandchildren listen intently
to their heritage, anticipating their future from their
past.
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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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Gaza Under Siege
Charles Stewart, 2002, 27 minutes, DVD
Gazans bear the brunt of Israel's determination to quash
the uprising. The film focuses on one refugee family
trying to cope. Already poor, the family has reached
breaking point, and wonders how long life can go on
with no solution in sight. Raji
Sourani, a human rights lawyer, asks why the international
commmunity shies away from its responsibilities and
fails to criticize Israel's aggression and the denial
of the Palestinians' rights.
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Jenin Jenin
Mohamed Bakri, 2002, 54 minutes
Filmed shortly following Israel's April 2002 attack
on the Jenin refugee camp, this documentary includes
testimony from the survivors of the camp. A large section
of the camp was flattened and scores of Palestinians
were killed. Numerous cases of war crimes have been
documented by Palestinians as well as international
human rights groups. "Jenin Jenin" shows the
extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror
has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants
of Jenin.
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Jerusalem 1948: Youm Ilak
ou Youm Aleik
Leon
Willems and Tinus Kramer, 1998, 45 minutes, DVD
The film aims,
on the one hand, to explain the historical complexity
of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948 while also providing
insight into the diversity of Palestinian refugee experiences
since then. Palestinian eyewitnesses and experts, now
refugees living in refugee camps, villages and cities
in Palestine, Jordan and the USA tell the story of their
lives in pre-1948 Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem: An Occupation
Set in Stone?
Marty
Rosenbluth,
1995, 55 minutes, DVD
Filmmaker Marty Rosenbluth details the devastating effects
of Israel's urban planning policies that, according
to many, aim to uproot the Palestinian presence in the
Holy City. The documentary is
a tribute to the thousands of Palestinians living in
East Jerusalem without access to life's most basic amenities.
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Open Bethlehem / Tell the World
Leila Sansour, 2005, 4 minutes film plus 3 photo essays plus photo archive
Open Bethlehem is an international public relations campaign created in 2005 to address the state of emergency in Bethlehem. It aims to transcend the city's closure with a positive message asserting Bethlehem's international status as an open, multi-faith world heritage city.
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Stranger in My Home - Jerusalem
Sahera Dirbas, 2007, 37 minutes, DVD
The film relates the stories of eight Palestinian Jerusalemite families that have been turned refugees in their own city. They recall the events that occurred in the Moghrabi Quarter of Jerusalem during the 1967 war. Each family goes to see its house which was occupied in 1948, some entering their former homes and having a discussion with the current Israeli tenants.
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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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To Gaza With Love
Aki Nawaz, 2009, 70 minutes, DVD-R
This historic attempt to sail the first boats into Gaza in more than 40 years will take you on a rollercoaster of emotion, tears, high drama, and courage. The true story of a team of international peace activists aboard two fishing boats, who decided to take on the might of the Israeli military and break the siege of Gaza.
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To Shoot An Elephant
Alberto Arce & Mohammad Rujailah, 2009, 113 minutes, DVD-R
Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians.
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until when...
Dahna Abourahme, 2004, 76 minutes, DVD
Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows
four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee
Camp near Bethlehem. They talk about their past and
discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and
hope. "until when..." paints an intimate in-depth
portrait of Palestinian lives today.
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