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Israel/Palestine Studies


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One of modern history’s defining ongoing conflicts, where issues of nationalism, religion and ethics vie for legitimacy and recognition.

Israel/Palestine Studies Collection

  • Ambulance
    Ambulance
    Director: Mohamed Jabaly   | Year of production: 2016
    Country of production: Norway, Palestine | Language: Arabic, English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 58/78 min.

    An honest, straight and raw first-person account of the last war in Gaza in the summer of 2014. Mohamed Jabaly, a young man from Gaza City, joins an ambulance crew as war approaches, looking for his place in a country under siege. While thousands of things are published on the recurring violence, the stories behind them remain hidden. Not this one.

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  • Ghost Hunting
    Ghost Hunting
    Director: Raed Andoni   | Year of production: 2017
    Country of production: France, Other, Palestine, Switzerland | Language: Arabic (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 93 min.

    In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to build a replicate of Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation center, where he was himself jailed at age 18. From fragmentary memory, day after day, they give shape to the interrogation center they all experienced, and re-enact its stories. As the walls of the cells rise, the tongues and the emotions loosen.

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  • Promises
    Promises
    Director: Justine Shapiro   B.Z. Goldberg   Carlos Bolado   | Year of production: 2001
    Country of production: USA | Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 102 min.

    A beautiful and deeply moving portrait of seven Palestinian and Israeli children. Emmy award-winning and Academy award-nominated, PROMISES follows the journey of a filmmaker who meets these children in and around Jerusalem, from a Palestinian refugee camp to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Although they live only 20 minutes apart, these children exist in completely separate worlds, divided by physical, historical and emotional boundaries. PROMISES explores the nature of these boundaries and tells the story of a few children who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors.

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  • The Inner Tour
    The Inner Tour
    Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz   | Year of production: 2001
    Country of production: Israel, Palestine | Language: Arabic, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 98 min.

    A 3 days’ bus tour with Palestinians from the occupied territories touring a country they hardly know, yet which is very present in their day to day lives, and in their personal histories. They are touring what they regard as their occupied homeland.
    They encounter Israelis whom they normally know only as soldiers. Other stops may serve as catalysts that bring out their personal stories. The windows of the bus carrying “The Inner Tour” turn into a two way mirror, allowing a glimpse at the Palestinian society, on the one hand, and at a reflected image of Israel, on the other.

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  • Women of Hammas
    Women of Hammas
    Director: Suha Arraf   | Year of production: 2010
    Country of production: Germany, Israel | Language: Arabic (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 60 min.

    While the most prominent members of the controversial organisation Hammas are men, most of its field work is carried out by cadres of women supporters. These women of Hammas are the most powerful women in the Palestinian territories. Focusing on three such women, this film probes at their ideological commitment to the movement and gives us an insight into the work of those who remain in the shadows.

  • Ford Transit
    Ford Transit
    Director: Hany Abu-Assad   | Year of production: 2002
    Country of production: Netherlands | Language: Arabic (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 80/60 min.

    Rajai, a Palestinian “service” taxi driver ferries his passengers between East Jerusalem and Ramallah for 3 shekels a ride. En route, he either gives you insight into the daily challenges faced by Palestinians under Israeli occupation, or he drives you crazy. Or both. His take on the Intifada, suicide bombings and life in general is mirrored in his passengers—which include prominent Palestinian political and cultural figures, and more than one delightful cameo appearance in this blurry document of fact and fiction.

  • Holy Fire
    Holy Fire
    Director: Yoram Sabo   | Year of production: 2008
    Country of production: Israel | Language: English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 50 min.

    The Old City of Jerusalem is in the heart of the Middle East conflict. Measuring just a single square kilometer, people from three of the world’s great religions rub shoulders in four distinct quarters, and houses built on top of each other nestle against some of the holiest sites in the world. There, of all places, tense co-existence is maintained. In the churches, leaders of the feuding sects stake their religious and territorial claims. On top of the Temple Mount, a group of Palestinian children practice throwing stones, while beneath them an orthodox Jew plans to rebuild the Jewish Temple.

  • Budrus
    Budrus
    Director: Julia Bacha   | Year of production: 2010
    Country of production: Israel, Palestine, USA | Language: English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 82 min.

    Ayed Morrar, an unlikely community organizer, unites Palestinians from all political factions and Israelis to save his village from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Victory seems improbable until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat.

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  • No. 17
    No. 17
    Director: David Ofek   | Year of production: 2004
    Country of production: Israel | Language: Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 76 min.

    In 2002, a bus traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberius blew up in a suicide bombing. 17 people were killed, of which 16 were identified. No. 17 was not. He was buried a few weeks later in an anonymous grave. The police stopped trying to identify him, believing he must have been a lone foreign worker. This is where the filmmaker steps in, documenting, over a period of six months, his real time search for the identity of a man whom no one claimed as missing.

  • Life Sentences
    Life Sentences
    Director: Nurit Kedar, Yaron Shani   | Year of production: 2013
    Country of production: Israel | Language: Arabic, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 96 min.

    An Arab man marries a Jewish woman. They give birth to a girl and a boy and live in quiet harmony among the Arab-Jewish community. Nobody realizes that behind dozens of mysterious terror attacks which trembles the state of Israel in the late 60’s stands no other than the Arab father.

    When he is caught the mother decides to flee the country with her kids. When they grow up, the two will take opposite roads – She will become an ultra-orthodox Jew, and he will fall in love and marry his Muslim cousin..

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  • Dimona Twist
    Dimona Twist
    Director: Michal Aviad   | Year of production: 2016
    Country of production: Israel | Language: Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 70 min.

    Seven women arrive in Israel by ship in the 1950s and 1960s and are sent straight to Dimona, a town recently established in the desert. They now open up and share their life stories that have never before been told from their perspectives. What happened during the first fifteen years to the girls and women who arrived with their families from North Africa and Poland and found themselves building a town in the middle of the desert? They talk about the pain of leaving their homes behind, about poverty and the difficulties of adjusting in their new homeland, and about their determined attempts to create rich and meaningful lives.

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  • Jerusalem Cuts
    Jerusalem Cuts
    Director: Liran Atzmor   | Year of production: 2008
    Country of production: Israel, Switzerland | Language: Arabic, English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 52 min.

    One war, ten days, three stories: the Old City of Jerusalem, at the dawn of a new Middle East. For the Brits, it’s the shameful end of 30 years Mandate. For the Jews, it’s the birthday of their State. And for the Palestinians, it’s a catastrophe. Only now, 60 years later, images can be shown from three opposing points of view, telling a whole new story.
    Jerusalem Cuts wanders between fiction and reality, looking for some sparks of truth about what really happens when this triptych of narratives interweave. Does the best story win?

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  • Leila Khaled Hijacker
    Leila Khaled Hijacker
    Director: Lina Makboul   | Year of production: 2005
    Country of production: Sweden | Language: Arabic, English, Swedish (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 58 min.

    Leila Khaled was the first woman in the world to hijack an aircraft. As a member of the Popular front for the liberation of Palestine, PFLP, she hijacked an American Boeing 707 in 1969. This is the story told by a young Palestinian who grew up in Sweden about what made Leila Khaled become one of the world’s most famous terrorists and the most famous Palestinian Woman of all.

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  • Luxuries
    Luxuries
    Director: David Ofek   | Year of production: 2011
    Country of production: Israel | Language: Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 54 min.

    An elusive “coordinator,” vague formulas that calculate “survival capacity”, warehouses cramped with rotting goods, and donkeys dressed up as zebras – all take part in the mosaic that sketches a surreal reality in which evil and stupidity merge.
    Director David Ofek takes the viewer on a journey to the absurd front of the Israeli “blockade on Gaza”, revealing the consequences of a policy that limits the flow of goods into Gaza.

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