Event
The Beirut Apartment (50min) / Stranger in my Home Jerusalem (37min) / Tunnel Trade (21min)
The Beirut Apartment
This documentary takes a look inside the lives of young, gay men and women in Beirut. The filmmaker rented an apartment in Beirut to allow their subjects to speak freely about topics such as war, religion, the rise of Hezbollah and renewed conflicts with Israel, along with issues of sexuality and gender. Despite differing backgrounds and opinions, these men and women share in their struggle to live in a culture that denies their existence.
Stranger in my Home Jerusalem (37min)
The Documentary film is based on oral history. It relates the stories of eight Palestinian Jerusalemite families that have been turned into refugees in their own city. After 40 years they recall the events that occurred in the Moghrabi Quarter of Jerusalem during the 1967war. Each family goes to see its house which was occupied in 1948.The houses are located in the Baqa'a, Talbiyeh,Qatamon and Mosrarah neighbourhoods of what is now west Jerusalem. Some of the families enter their former homes and have a discussion with the Israeli tenants currently occupying their homes. Also includes an interview with the Israeli architect David Kroyanker who wrote books about these houses.
Tunnel Trade (21min)
When Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, the city of Rafah was suddenly split between Egypt and Gaza by a high-security concrete and metal wall. though their houses often lay less than 100m apart, families were suddenly divided. Before long, people moved their business underground, through dozens of secret tunnels burrowed below the wall. During some of Gaza's worst ever infighting in May of 2007, Saeed Taji Farouky of Tourist With A Typewriter teamed up with Gaza journalist and celebrated blogger Laila El-Haddad for an exclusive investigation into this underground trade from the perspective of the families who operate it.
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LocationWriters Guild of America Theater
135 South Doheny Drive
Beverly Hills, CA
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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