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Bye Bye Tiberias
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Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.
Canada Park
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
Jenin, Jenin
In April 2002, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield and reoccupied the entire West Bank. The Jenin refugee camp was invaded and journalists and humanitarian organisations were denied access for several days. The Palestinians and many NGOs accused Israel of war crimes. Israel refused access to the UN fact-finding mission... Mohammad Bakri decided to enter the camp in spite of eve...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
In the Desert - Omar's Dream
_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
Foragers
_Foragers_ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub an...
How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon
How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon
Price: CAD$3.00As the 1996 elections approach, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a documentary about a figure both admired and disliked, a former minister and a legendary army general, Ariel Sharon. Mograbi, who was a conscientious objector to the 1982 Lebanon War, has a very personal point of view on Sharon, the mastermind of that war. Nevertheless, while making the film, he seems to begin to see Sharon ...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi
A director is hired to make a film about the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel. During the shooting, he realizes that two other anniversaries are taking place at the same time: his own and the Nakba, the "catastrophe" for the Palestinians. At the same time, he recounts the problems caused by a piece of land he bought several years ago. The director is Avi Mograbi himself and it ...
Z 32
A former Israeli soldier who participated in a revenge operation where two Palestinian policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness for what he has done. His girlfriend does not think it is that simple, and she raises issues he is yet not ready to address. The soldier willingly testifies in front of the camera as long as his identity is concealed. While the filmmaker keeps looking for the right so...
An Unusual Summer
Following an act of vandalism, the father of the Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari decides to install a surveillance camera in order to record the scenes unfolding in front of his house.
Bye Bye Tiberias
Subscription access
Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.
Canada Park
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
Jenin, Jenin
In April 2002, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield and reoccupied the entire West Bank. The Jenin refugee camp was invaded and journalists and humanitarian organisations were denied access for several days. The Palestinians and many NGOs accused Israel of war crimes. Israel refused access to the UN fact-finding mission... Mohammad Bakri decided to enter the camp in spite of eve...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
In the Desert - Omar's Dream
_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
Foragers
_Foragers_ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub an...
How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon
How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon
Price: CAD$3.00As the 1996 elections approach, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a documentary about a figure both admired and disliked, a former minister and a legendary army general, Ariel Sharon. Mograbi, who was a conscientious objector to the 1982 Lebanon War, has a very personal point of view on Sharon, the mastermind of that war. Nevertheless, while making the film, he seems to begin to see Sharon ...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi
A director is hired to make a film about the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel. During the shooting, he realizes that two other anniversaries are taking place at the same time: his own and the Nakba, the "catastrophe" for the Palestinians. At the same time, he recounts the problems caused by a piece of land he bought several years ago. The director is Avi Mograbi himself and it ...
Z 32
A former Israeli soldier who participated in a revenge operation where two Palestinian policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness for what he has done. His girlfriend does not think it is that simple, and she raises issues he is yet not ready to address. The soldier willingly testifies in front of the camera as long as his identity is concealed. While the filmmaker keeps looking for the right so...
An Unusual Summer
Following an act of vandalism, the father of the Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari decides to install a surveillance camera in order to record the scenes unfolding in front of his house.
