Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-8 of 8
- Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
- Documentary about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
- A Fellini-Esq documentary that takes place in the West Bank city of Jenin and follows a local initiative to re-open the old and only cinema in the city. Cinema Jenin, founded in the 1960s, was once the largest cinema in the Palestinian territories. Today it stands as a hollow echo of its society. It is crumbling and seems just about to collapse; taking all the old stories it once contained crashing down with it. And yet, there are still hints of its glamor days for anyone to see. An extraordinary group of Palestinians hope to restore glory to the city and perhaps to themselves, embarking on an almost impossible mission to re-open the cinema.
- 'Happy You're Alive' documents both the tragedy of battle in the West Bank and the lasting effects of war on society as they play out in the lives of two men struggling after their encounters in combat. Their difficult return to life as usual after the terror of the battlefield has been captured on film over a span of more than two years. Each man deals with the haunting memories of war differently, with one turning to music and one to therapy; both stories show that the will and strength to survive can be found even in the face of the most unimaginable pain.
- Er war Pazifist und Humanist, kämpfte für Verständigung und glaubte an den Dialog zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern am 31. März 2002 kommt der Israeli Dov Chernobroda bei einem Selbstmordattentat in Haifa ums Leben. Der 24-jährige Palästinenser Shadi Tobassi aus dem Westjordanland sprengt sich in dem arabischen Restaurant in die Luft, in dem Dov gerade zu Mittag isst. Warum geht ein junger Mann morgens aus dem Haus wie an jedem anderen Tag, sagt, er käme nicht so spät zurück von der Arbeit und zündet ein paar Stunden später den Sprengstoffgürtel unter seinem Shirt? Acht Jahre nach dem Attentat versuchen die zwei jungen Regisseurinnen Stephanie Bürger und Jule Ott zu verstehen, was unvorstellbar scheint. Wie leben die Menschen in diesem Konflikt? Was weiß der eine von den Tragödien des anderen? Die beiden Filmemacherinnen treffen die Israelin Yaël Chernobroda, Dovs Witwe. Dov hat an die Möglichkeit der Versöhnung zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern geglaubt. Wofür er Zeit seines Lebens eingestanden ist, das möchte Yaël acht Jahre nach seinem Tod fortsetzen: Sie bringt den Mut auf, die Familie des Attentäters in den besetzten Gebieten zu besuchen. Die Familie Tobassi traut sich, die Israelin in ihr Wohnzimmer nach Jenin einzuladen. Der Film erzählt die schrittweise Annäherung beider Familien, die getrennt durch eine Mauer und zahlreiche Checkpoints das gleiche Schicksal teilen: Sie müssen ein Leben nach dem 31. März 2002 führen, nach dem Tod, nach dem Schock, nach der Stille. Nach der Stille wurde durch das Projekt Cinema Jenin ermöglicht.
- The documentary Jenin Yoman Miluim (Jenin Diary) chronicles what happens to a group of Israeli soldiers after a Palestinian attack that results in the death of 13 servicemen. The director, a member of the group that came under attack, interviews fellow soldiers as well as superior officers who question why reservists were stationed at the city rather than better trained soldiers. The interviews capture the churning emotions of the men who have seen horror and carnage. Jenin Diary was screened at the 2003 Israel Film Festival.
- HIDDEN BATTLES, a feature length documentary, is a dramatic and deeply personal film about the psychological impact of killing on the lives of five soldiers. Representing a cross section of nationalities, gender, class and race, these soldiers reveal intimate memories about the central act of war, the killing of another human being. How do these individuals make sense of what they have done? What happens when time challenges their carefully constructed stories? Consciously apolitical but deeply psychological, Hidden Battles examines the strength and struggles of men and women who kill and how they create a life for themselves afterward.