Detained  Anat Even and Ada Ushpiz A fascinating documentary that personalizes the universal, "Detained" looks at Mideast tensions through a curious accident of geography -- three Palestinian women living in a small apartment block in Hebron whose front is under Israeli jurisdiction and rear under Palestinian. More. |
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Like Twenty Impossibles (ka-Innana Ashrun Mustaheel) |
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Occupation 101 ... 2 Disc DVD |
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Occupied Minds: A Palestinian-Israeli Journey Beyond Hope And Despair … DVD David Michaelis (Director) and Jamal Dajani (Director) Occupied Minds takes viewers on an emotional, intensely personal odyssey through one of the world's most volatile regions. The film follows Palestinian-American journalist Jamal Dajani and Israeli journalist David Michaelis as they travel together to Jerusalem, their mutual birthplace. Together they hope to offer unique insights into the divisive Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Filmed in 2005, this is about a current a snapshot as you're likely to get at the moment. The two journalists meet with a variety of people, including a Palestinian gunman who is on Israel's most-wanted list; an Israeli soldier who discusses his military service; an Israeli surgeon who lost his eyesight in a Palestinian suicide bombing; a Palestinian farmer whose pasture was divided by one of the walls being built around Israeli enclaves and an Israeli mother who lost her son in the conflict. As Dajani and Michaelis make their way through contemporary Israel and Palestine, they struggle to find lasting solutions to what many believe to be a never-ending conflict. 58 minutes, and produced by the journalists own Link TV Productions. "Brilliant...This must-see film is, in the words of Dajani, 'a narrative not heard in the mass media,' and, added Michaelis, 'the story you haven't heard before.'" -Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. |
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Palestine For Beginners ... DVD Edward Mast & Linda Bevis Palestine Information Project presents their popular PALESTINE FOR BEGINNERS, a fast-moving guide to the roots of conflict, key historical and current events, and the characters and motivations behind the ongoing crisis. Filmed before a live audience and professionally edited, PALESTINE FOR BEGINNERS is a 60 minute presentation with an additional 10 minutes of Q &A, all divided into chapters for reference and classroom use. More. |
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Gaza Strip … DVD James Longley In January of 2001, American director James Longley traveled to the Gaza Strip. His plan was stay for two weeks to collect preliminary material for a documentary film on the Palestinian Intifada. It was during his stay that Ariel Sharon was elected as Israeli Prime Minister. As violence erupted around him, Longley threw away his return ticket and filmed for the next three months, acquiring nearly 75 hours of footage. Gaza Strip, his first feature documentary, is an extraordinary and painful journey into the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip struggling with the day-to-day trials of the Israeli occupation. Filmed in verite style and without narration, Gaza Strip at last gives voice to a population largely ignored by mainstream media. "An unflinchingly honest portrayal of a population under siege....deserves the widest possible audience." —Washington Report on Middle East Affairs "One of the most important documentaries of recent times." —Film Threat |
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Jenin Jenin (DVD) Mohamed Bakri A new DVD edition of the now infamous film, based on the testimony of the residents of Jenin following the Israeli Army's Defensive Wall operation of April 2002, which flattened the refugee camp and left scores of Palestinians dead. Extra DVD features include a "Slideshow with Eyewitness Account," a map of Jenin, "Scene Selections," and "Filmmaker Biographies." |
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Rock, Paper, Missiles (VHS) PAPER TIGER TV Produced in 2001 with Media Accuracy Project Middle East, Rock, Paper, Missiles examines US media reportage of the conflicts between Palestinians and Israelis, which confound many Americans as much as they seem to raise the emotions of those involved. Many of us, with little information to go on, are led to believe that the conflict is one of religious or ethnic hatreds—but is this true? What is the basis and history of the conflict in Palestine/Israel? Why is Israel the largest recipient of US aid in the world? Why are Palestinians throwing ROCKS at Israeli soldiers armed with bullets and MISSLES? Are we getting the full picture from the US mainstream PAPERS? 17 minutes. |
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Standing With Palestine PAPER TIGER TV Made in 2003, Standing With Palestine looks at the growing grassroots movement in the United States in support of the Palestinian people and against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Through interviews with activists, the video shows how many Americans are no longer accepting the traditional views and official policies that have contributed to, if not caused, the worsening situation in the Middle East. 20 minutes. |
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Children Of Shatila (VHS) Mai Masri Shatila camp first became known after the horrific 1982 Sabra-Shatila massacre shocked the world. Located in Beirut's "belt of misery," the camp is home to 15,000 Palestinians and Lebanese who share a common experience of displacement, unemployment, and poverty. Fifty years after the exile of their grandparents from Palestine, the children of the Shatila camp attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming realities of being refugees in a camp which has survived massacre, siege, and starvation. Documentary filmmaker Masri focuses on the lives of two Palestinian children: Farah—age 11 and Issa—age 12. Given video cameras, they tell us of their pasts and the realities of their daily lives. Out of these personal narratives evolve the story of the Shatila camp. A staggering project, produced in 1998. In Arabic with English subtitles. |
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Children of Fire (VHS) Mai Masri When filmmaker Mai Masri returns to her hometown of Nablus after a 14 year absence, she discovered a new generation of Palestinians fighting for their freedom: the children of the Intifada. A 50 minute documentary, made in 1990, of the lives of the Palestinian kids, who shout and throw stones at Israeli soldiers, play war games together, and create childish paintings that are filled with the violent images that surround them—of their young friends and relatives who have lost their lives in the fight for their homeland. "Dramatic, bravely filmed stuff...if you closed your eyes you could have been witnessing the Nazi occupation of the Warsaw Ghetto." —Daily Express In Arabic with English subtitles. |
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Until When... DVD Dahna Abourahme (Director) Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is 13 and cares for his 4 younger brothers, the Hammashes are a close-knit family who pass on the lessons of life with humor and passion, Sana is a single woman who endures long commutes to do community work, and Emad and Hanan are a young couple trying to shield their daughter from the harsh realities of the occupation. More. |
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Private ... DVD Saverio Costanzo (Director) Inspired by real events, documentary filmmaker Saverio Costanzo's feature debut is a minimalist psychological drama about a Palestinian family of seven suddenly confronted with a volatile situation in their home that in many ways reflects the larger ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel. More. |
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Rana’s Wedding ... DVD Hany Abu-Assad (Director) Shooting on location in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and at checkpoints in-between, Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) sees the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the eyes of a young woman who, with only ten hours to marry, must negotiate her way around roadblocks, soldiers, stone-throwers, overworked officials ... and into the heart of an elusive lover. More. |
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The Color of Olives ... DVD |
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T.V.'s Promised Land ... DVD Nicholas Dembowski (Director) With T.V.'s Promised Land, director Nicholas Dembowski creates a clever montage of found footage from Hollywood movies, cable news networks, European news broadcasts, American Westerns, etc. The accumulated evidence powerfully asserts that Western media has long demonized a catch-all "Arab/Muslim world" via selective coverage and dehumanizing imagery that boosts the "good vs. evil" rhetoric of politicians and pundits like George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Bill O'Reilly. By offering no narration or other commentary of its own, T.V.'s Promised Land lets news outlets, Hollywood and politicians incriminate themselves. More. |
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Ripples Cross ... DVD Mark Turner (Director) This film is dedicated to all international activists who venture out into the world to stand in solidarity with the oppressed. While teaching young students about the unreliability of western media's reporting on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, finance major Mark Turner declares that the only way to really know what is happening in the Middle East is to go and see for yourself. After suffering the loss of a close friend, Mark decides to do just that; he sells his car, buys a video camera and leaves his home in Littleton, Colorado to learn firsthand about life in the Israeli-occupied territories of Palestine. More. |
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500 Dunam on the Moon … VHS, NTSC Rachel Leah Jones (Director) 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. More. |
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Check Point: The Palestinians After Oslo… VHS, NTSC Tom Wright and Therese Saliba (Directors) The signing of the Oslo Peace Accord in 1993 sparked worldwide hope for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. CHECKPOINT takes a critical look at this peace agreement and its aftermath. With offbeat humor, warmth and insight, it offers an unorthodox appraisal you won't hear from network soundbites. More. |
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Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family…VHS, NTSC |
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Jerusalem 1948: Yoom Ilak, Yoom Aleik …VHS, NTSC Leon Willems and Tinus Kramer Bjorklund (Directors) JERUSALEM 1948 covers the events in Jerusalem and the major villages to the south and west in the period between the 1947 UN Partition Resolution and the first truce between the Arab and Israel armed forces in June 1948. The film challenges the major myths surrounding the war of 1948 that resulted in Israeli statehood and Palestinian exile. More. |
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Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone? … VHS, NTSC Marty Rosenbluth (Director) Produced by the Palestinian Housing Rights Movement, Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone? is a tribute to the thousands of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem without access to life's most basic amenities. 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. More. |
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Tale of the Three Jewels … VHS, NTSC Michel Khleifi (Director) TALE OF THE THREE JEWELS is a moving parable and the first feature film ever to be filmed in the Gaza Strip. Made in the days following the Hebron Massacre;and before the arrival of the Palestinian Authority;it 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. More. |
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Paradise Now ... DVD Hany Abu-Assad (Director) Shot on location in both Palestine and Israel, Paradise Now is an enthralling drama about the possible motivations and actions of two suicide bombers. Director Hany Abu-Assad meticulously researched the subject before co-authoring the script with colleague Bero Beyer, and fought off a few armed Palestinians in Nablus, which is where the bulk of the film's shooting took place. More. |
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Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land ... DVD (2 Disks) Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Sut Jhally (Directors) This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies--exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides an historical overview, a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion. More. |
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Tragedy in the Holy Land: The Second Uprising ... DVD Denis Mueler (Director) Few films about the Middle East view history through the lens of the Palestinians, even though they are the people whose history and daily reality lie at the heart of events in the region. TRAGEDY IN THE HOLY LAND fills a void in conventional accounts of the Israeli/Palestinian struggle. It gives the viewer access to the voices and background of one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted conflicts of the last century. More. |
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Wall ... DVD Simone Bitton (Director) Wall is a cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab. In an original documentary approach, the film follows the separation fence that is destroying one of the most historically significant landscapes in the world, while imprisoning one people and enclosing the other. More. |
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