A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by the charismatic, funny yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 is starting to lose his grip on the 'family business', sending them on a rigid and unsure transition from Monarchy to Democracy.
Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel Amos Gitai returns to the house in West Jerusalem he profiled in 1980. He interviews members of the Jewish families who live there, and he talks with the Arab family who lived in the house until 1948. They are now in East Jerusalem and pay a nearly furtive visit to the street in front of their old house. Gitai also ...
Law permits the Israeli army to enter Palestinian homes at any time. They do not have to say why they search an apartment in the middle of the night. Law permits Palestinians to film these actions and the army is not allowed to forbid it. On this particular night, relations are altered due to the presence of an active camera.(Berlinale 2014)
A group of young immigrants from Soviet Union live in a provincial Israeli town. In their new homeland the only person who follows them closely is the local policeman, family ties are wearing out day by day, and they do everything to mess their lives up, transforming their anxiety to get a new social standing in violence and robbery. Will they be able to build a soccer team and...
以色列與巴勒斯坦的爭端,一直是一個剪不斷理還亂的無解習題。它讓所有關心這個議題的人,都反覆深陷在希望與絕望的輪迴中。《安娜的孩子》就是這樣一個感人的故事。它讓我們看到:並不是所有以色列人都欺壓巴勒斯坦人;巴勒斯坦人也不都天生就是恐怖分子。只是,仇恨讓一切都往最壞的方向發展。
阿娜是一位猶太人,90年代初期她在巴勒斯坦的以色列占領區傑寧(Jenin)創立一個兒童劇團。他們收容了Youssef、Ashraf、Ala、Nidal…等巴勒斯坦的小孩。讓他們透過演戲,舒緩因軍事佔領所帶來的恐懼、挫折與辛酸。「沒有教育就沒有自由,沒有自由就沒有和平!」安娜這麼告訴孩子們。攝影機長期紀錄了他們的成長、歡笑與茫然。八年後,Ala已是一個背著機槍的游擊隊,Ashraf死於一次傑寧的戰役中,Youssef和Nidal兩兄弟則成為自殺炸彈客…。
Dozens of checkpoints lie scattered throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, manned by the Israeli Defence Forces. Thousands of Palestinians pass through them every day, making them one of the major meeting points between both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Many different encounters occur at these checkpoints each and every day, revealing a reality with its own rule...