Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-israel

 

About The Film

Walls continue to be raised, barbed-wires laid down, new borders succeeding those already present in the collective unconscious of both peoples. What can cinema do before a situation so desperately devoid of hope? Sivan and Khleifi, faced with the tragic torments shaking their societies, come together in a sort of filmic act of faith. They believe that the only "realistic" solution rests in the prospect of a binational state where citizens share equal rights and duties for peaceful coexistence.

 
 
 
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DOAN | Filmmakers
Michel Khleifi
Michel Khleifi

Michel Khleifi was born in Nazareth in 1950. In 1970 he traveled to Belgium where he studied television and theatre directing. Considered the founder of modern Palestinian cinema, Khleifi produced and directed several full-length features and documentaries for international release and broadcast. His previous documentary feature, Fertile Memory (1980), was the first Palestinian film to be shown at the Cannes FF and was a groundbreaking work, both on a political and aesthetic level, treating the struggle for women's freedom and emancipation, across the generations and under occupation, in a haunting lyrical style that became all his own.

 

Michel Khleifi & Eyal Sivan -- Documentary, 270’ (Germany/France: 2003)

Sabeel Seedi Omar

 

About The film

The story of Omar, who spends his life striving to get back his stolen property. The events take place in one of Cairo’s popular wards, wherein the story of Omar and the stranger begins.

 
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Enas Muthaffar
Enas Muthaffar

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 -- 14' (Egypt: 2000)

Sahar's Wedding

 

About The Film

The chronicle of a wedding in a Palestinian village under Israeli occupation, this film provides a portrait not only of the bride and groom, but also of their immediate kin. It becomes clear that attitudes about marriage, women’s roles and politics are undergoing great changes. Despite the military presence, there is hope for the future.

 
 
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Hanna Musleh
Hanna Musleh

Hanna Musleh was born in 1954 in Beit Jala to Wahbe and Nijmeh Musleh. During his youth he attended the Mennonite School in Beit Jala, and later went to study in Leningrad State University in Russia for a degree in anthropology, finally obtaining his M.A. from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at Manchester University in England. Musleh then returned to Palestine and has worked as a professor at Bethlehem University since 1980 where he has taught cultural studies, history, anthropology and currently teaches film appreciation, anthropology of religion and philosophy.

 
 
 

Hanna Musleh -- 46' (Palestine: 1991)

Salt of this Sea (Milh Hadha al-Bahr)

 

ABOUT THE FILM

Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather's savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Direct, stubborn, and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of "returning" to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it's illegal.

 
 
 
DOAN | Filmmakers
Annemarie Jacir
Annemarie Jacir

Annemarie Jacir has been working in independent film since 1994 and has written, directed and produced a number of films including A Post Oslo History (1998), The Satellite Shooters (2001) and Like Twenty Impossibles (2003). She has taught courses at Columbia, Bethlehem, and Birzeit University. She also works as a freelance editor and cinematographer. Salt of this Sea (2008) is her first feature film, and her second work to debut at Cannes Film Festival. Having been banned from returning to Palestine, she now lives in Amman, Jordan.

 

Annemarie Jacir -- 109’, Arabic/English/Hebrew (Palestine/Belgium/France/Spain/Switzerland: 2008)

Sandino

 

ABOUT THE FILM

A drama based on the life of a Nicaraguan liberation fighter, Cesar Augusto Sandino, famous for having confronted US occupying forces during their occupation of Nicaragua from 1927 to 1933.

 
 
 
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Miguel Littin
Miguel Littin

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 -- 135’/165’, Spanish (Chile, Italy, Nicaragua, Spain: 1989)

 

The Satellite Shooters

 

ABOUT THE FILM

Using the conventions of the Western genre, "The Satellite Shooters" satirically tells the story of Tawfiq, a young Palestinian boy in Texas trying to find his place in America, and The Kid, a local gunslinger. The film is a critique of the imagination that the Western arises from -- that fantasy land wherein masculine idealizations and racial hierarchies lead to the prevailing cowboy hero and his stunted sidekick.

 
 
DOAN | Filmmakers
Annemarie Jacir
Annemarie Jacir

Annemarie Jacir has been working in independent film since 1994 and has written, directed and produced a number of films including A Post Oslo History (1998), The Satellite Shooters (2001) and Like Twenty Impossibles (2003). She has taught courses at Columbia, Bethlehem, and Birzeit University. She also works as a freelance editor and cinematographer. Salt of this Sea (2008) is her first feature film, and her second work to debut at Cannes Film Festival. Having been banned from returning to Palestine, she now lives in Amman, Jordan.

 
 

Annemarie Jacir -- 16’, English/Arabic with English Subtitles (USA/Palestine: 2001)

The Shadow

 
 
 
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Abdel Salam Shehadeh
Abdel Salam Shehadeh

Abdel Salam Shehadeh is from Rafah in Gaza, Palestine. He has worked in television production and media and as a camera and sound technician, and has worked in various capacities for international news crews. Director of more than 15 Documentary films such as The Shadow, the Cane, and Debris which had a good impact in many international festivals.

 
 

Abdel Salam Shehadeh -- 43' (Palestine: 2000)