MAPPING
HOLY LAND - COMMON GROUND: UNBROKEN CIRCLE
FENCE, WALL, BORDER: THE FIRST PHASE
Descriptions...
ROADS - Directed by Lior Geller
This gritty, break-neck pace, cinema verite-style short drama centers on thirteen-year-old Ismayil who works for the most powerful drug dealer in the Israeli-Arab city of Lod, and Israeli ex-soldier Daniel, traumatized by the war in Lebanon. Daniel buys drugs from Ismayil, trying to escape his own reality. In the end, the two find in each other a way out of their respective hells.
Completed as a finals thesis for the Tel Aviv University Film School, Roads may at times shock and disturb, but will no doubt keep you on the edge of your seat and make you care, showing why the film's talented young director has quickly established himself in Israeli and international cinema circles.
** Official Entry, Tribeca Film Festival, 2008
** Best Short Film, Jerusalem Film Festival, 2007
MAPPING - Directed by Asaf Saban
Two surveyors, working Israel's Memorial Day on the construction of the separation wall, are unaware of the different segments of Israel's reality surrounding them. When the Memorial Day Siren bursts throughout the country, the past is always present.
A compilation of significant images and situations - some mundane, some poignant - weave together to make this film from Israel's Beit Berl Film School memorable.
** Official Entry, Clermont-Ferrand France Film Festival, 2008
HOLY LAND - COMMON GROUND: UNBROKEN CIRCLE
- A Film by Ed Gaffney & Alicia DwyerThis film by American documentarians - one of three artfully culled from their full-length feature - focuses on members of the Parents Circle / Bereaved Families Forum made up of Israelis and Palestinians who have lost family members in the ongoing conflict.
Using an observational style, the film conveys what more pointed films often miss, that there is no difference in
the color of the tears of a parent grieving their child.
FENCE, WALL, BORDER: THE FIRST PHASE - From the Series by Eli Cohen & Etty Wieseltier
The Barrier. It's not the longest, nor most lethal, but it's certainly the most debated in the world today. Will it create better neighbors or a wound that won't heal?
Eli Cohen, Award-winning director of the feature films Summer of Aviya, Two Fingers from Sidon, Under the Domim Tree, and The Quarrel, followed the construction of the barrier over a three-year period. This exceedingly important and even-handed film investigates the political, ecological, and human rights aspects, as well as the role of the media, the propaganda war, and the march of follies on both sides.