2017 Festival Films
SUMMARY Palestinian director Alaa Ashkar, living in France, set out to create a documentary about the collective memory of Palestinians in Israel. The director decides to include his family in the…
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SUMMARY After the first Israeli attack on Gaza 2008-9, the ASHTAR theater in Ramallah organized a global project following Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed methods: 31 Gazan youths aged 14-18…
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SUMMARY The Seventh Summit is the story of mountaineers who have taken on the Seven Summits Challenge—climbing to the top of the highest mountain peak on each of the seven continents. Four…
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SUMMARY This touching 14-minute documentary combines animation, original music, and interview with performance and archive footage to chronicle the remarkable journey of Aeham Ahmad, a classically trained musician attempting to escape…
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SUMMARY A Mizrahi Jewish family from Tunisia tries to settle into their new life in 1948 Haifa. They are haunted by an unwanted house guest, a parrot left behind by the…
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SUMMARY When his roommate asks him to leave their apartment temporarily, a struggling Palestinian-Mexican-American actor is forced to deal with his insecurities in a world quick to stereotype. Advisory: Language, adult themes
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SUMMARY Stitching Palestine profiles 12 Palestinian women from around the world and their moving life stories, all connected by the enduring thread of the ancient art of embroidery. TRAILER
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SUMMARY Rasheed documents the life of the filmmaker’s late uncle, Rasheed Broum, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Through the filmmaker’s own personal journey, Rasheed captures…
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SUMMARY This drama intimately chronicles a Palestinian family spread between Nazareth, Ramallah, and Sweden, whose various generations struggle to find the words to keep their fractured world from falling apart. TRAILER
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SUMMARY Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory is a meditation on the Palestinian people’s struggle to produce an image and self-representation on their own terms in the 1960s and 1970s, with the…
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