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Stories from the Middle East
Stories from the Middle East (4 shorts together)
The Mall -The mall is hidden from the eye, but itâs located just outside Tel Aviv at a busy intersection â right where youâd expect a mall to be. Cars whiz by. Most of the drivers choose not to see the workers crowding by the roadside. They are Israelâs invisible men.
Missing Gaza - A group of friends meet for lunch at a friendâs house in Ramallah. All of them are from Gaza, but are unable to return to lack of freedom of movement. Before, during and after lunch (where Gazan traditional food is served) the film explores and traces their homesickness and how they miss their families, friends and Gaza in general. Their anxiety is heightened in light of the anticipated Israeli pullout from Gaza. The filming of their meeting in Ramallah is inter-cut with actual footage of the people and palaces in Gaza that they mention.
Power - When talking about the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the south of Israel, one imagines tents with many wives and children. In the north, the picture is quite different. Most of the unrecognized spots have received some status and informal permission for building. There are houses and some roads paved by the people themselves but no basic services such as electricity. The scenery is beautiful and serene.
In this lush green backdrop, where the children are well dressed and educated and everyone speaks fluent Hebrew, the âno electricityâ situation seems absurd, out of place.
These are Israeli citizens who want to belong. They are both ashamed and angry at the lack of basic services in their villages â and some feel they need to voluntarily join the Israeli Army in order to belong.
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Juorney with Naba'a
Palestine, 17 min
Director & Producer: Hanna Musleh
The film shows us the complexity of life in a refugee camp through the story of one family from Dheisheh, a camp with a total population of over 12,000 refugees located near Bethlehem. The story comprises the relations with IDF soldiers, the poverty conditions to which refugees are exposed to by the conflict and how the conflict affects the physical and mental well being of some of the family members. This story can be considered as an example of the experience of the thousands Palestinian families in refugee camps.
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About The Sea
Palestine, 8 min
Director & Producer: Sobhi Al Zubeidi
A storytelling and a chronicle of Palestinian voices lamenting their state of being in a reality where there is no shore.
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Screening Information:
Friday, June 1st, 9:00 pm
The Royal, 608 College Street
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About Sobhi Al Zubeidi
A Palestinian film-maker who was born in Jerusalem in 1961, and grew up in the Jalalazone refugee camp near Ramallah. He studied at BirZeit university before moving to New York where he studied film.
In the mid-1990s, after the Oslo accords, he returned to Palestine, to Ramallah, where he's been working as a filmmaker, writer and film teacher. Al-Zobaidi made a number of documentary films, docudramas, short fictions, art videos and multi-media installations. Currently he is working on a Ph.D. at SFU where he is researching the influences of new media technologies (satellite, internet, cellular, and film) on the production of memory and identity amongst the various dispersed Palestinian communities.
Journey With Naba'a - The film shows us the complexity of life in a refugee camp through the story of one family from Dheisheh, a camp with a total population of over 12,000 refugees located near Bethlehem. The story comprises the relations with IDF soldiers, the poverty conditions to which refugees are exposed to by the conflict and how the conflict affects the physical and mental well being of some of the family members. This story can be considered as an example of the experience of the thousands Palestinian families in refugee camps.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 22 May 2007 )
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