This fiction feature film provides tragic-comic look at the consequences of hysteria over terrorism on a series Arab-American characters.
Nasri Zacharia is a co-founder of, and the Director of Programming for, the Harlem International Film Festival. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of California at Davis, and earned his MFA in directing and cinematography from New York University’s Graduate Film School.
Nasri Zakharia -- (USA: 2003)
“Tear of Peace” is a film that tells the story of the pain and suffering of a Palestinian family since the nakbah in 1948. After the 1967 war, they moved to Jordan, and later on to Syria, Lebanon, Sudan and Libya.The family moves again to the city of Ariha (Jericho) after the “Gaza-Ariha” accord. After the outbreak of the first Intifada, one of the members of the family is killed. The Israeli defense forces demolish the family’s house which they had built with their own hands, and they arrest their second son. The family now lives in a tent next to their demolished house.
George Musleh -- 34' (Palestine: 2003)
Based on "Ka'ek on the sidewalk", a short story by Ghassan Kanafani. A school teacher's conscience is put to the test as he tries to assist one of his students, whose life story unfolds in a series of daunting events.
Ismail Habash -- 26’, Arabic with English Subtitles (Palestine: 2001)
Exploring the devastating effects of military occupation, terror and isolation, this deeply moving piece explores the lives of eight Palestinian women and their struggle to live normal lives amidst the degrading drama of war. Representing a diverse cross-section of Palestinian society - from a news editor to a domestic worker to a housewife - they candidly speak about their daily encounters with violence and their marginalization in the ideological debate concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Alia Arasoughly is a filmmaker, curator, film theorist and sociologist of culture, based in Ramallah. She grew up in Lebanon, lived in the United States and moved to Palestine after the Oslo Accords. She has lectured internationally on issues of post-colonialism, gender and national identity in the Arab film production
Alia Arasoughly -- Documentary, 42’, Arabic with English Subtitles (Palestine: 2001)
A Palestinian couple, Jabar and Sana, live in a refugee camp near Ramallah. Sana volunteers with the emergency service of the Red Crescent Society. Jaber is unemployed and with no job prospects in the immediate future. He immerses himself in his passion, running a mobile cinema for children throughout the West Bank. One day, an opportunity to organize a screening in the old city of Jerusalem is made available to him. Despite the numerous obstacles that face him, he is determined to keep his commitment.
Rashid Masharawi was born and raised in Shati refugee camp, Gaza Strip. He is a self-taught filmmaker, beginning to work at eighteen in the cinema industry and acquiring skills on over twenty films before starting himself to write and direct his own. Masharawi’s films portray his knowledge of living under the Israeli Occupation in refugee camps, the new space of the intifada, as well as his constant reflection on cinema narrative.
Rashid Masharawi -- 85', Arabic (Australia/France/Netherlands/Palestine: 2002)
A Romanian engineer and a brothel owner join forces to exploit South American Indians in their quest for gold.
Born in 1942 in Palmilla, Chile to Palestinian parents, is a major Latin American director and screenwriter. Littin has had a long and distinguished career as a filmmaker and screenwriter in his home county and in Europe.
Miguel Littin -- 108' (Chile: 2000)
"The Time that Remains" is a semi biographic film, in four historic episodes, about Elia Suleiman’s family - spanning from 1948, until recent times. The diaries of Suleiman’s father inspire the film. They are his personal accounts, starting from when he was a resistant fighter in 1948, and his mother’s letters to family members who were forced to leave the country since then.
Combined with Suleiman’s intimate memories of them and with them, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labeled « Israeli-Arabs », living as a minority in their own homeland.
Born in 1960 in Nazareth, Elia Suleiman lived in New York from 1981 to 1993. While in the United States, he has directed his first two short films: Introduction to the End of an Argument and Hommage by Assassination, winning numerous awards.
Elia Suleiman -- 109’, Arabic/Hebrew/English (UK/Italy/Belgium/France: 2009)
The story of a Palestinian girl that left Jaffa after the 1948 war to Cairo, leaving her brother in Palestine. Throughout the 50 years of occupation, she strives to get a permission to visit Jaffa and see her brother again.
Enas I. Muthaffar was born and raised in Jerusalem. She obtained a BA in film direction from the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo, Egypt, and an MA in Feature Film from Goldsmiths College, University of London
Enas I. Muthaffar -- 12' (Egypt: 1999)
