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See America from the point of view of the Israeli ice cream truck vendor. This film is a documentary that portrays the neighborhoods of America through the point of view of the Israeli ice cream truck vendor. The film follows several such vendors in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina . The film follows the characters in their daily routine in cross cutting (in a parallel narrative). Throughout the film we learn about the different neighborhoods of Charlotte, and America - some segregated, some mixed. We learn about the vast differences in behavior, mentality, culture and way of life ? but when the ice cream truck comes to the neighborhood, everyone acts the same and wants the same thing: ice cream

Annotations for a Work in Progress... In November 1994 I traveled from New York to Barcelona hoping to retain support film in what remained of the original Chinatown. One could say that at the time of my arrival in the neighborhood, this started to disappear. Currently it is being demolished and transformed following a massive urban redevelopment plan. Decline and future life, memory and oblivion: entropy as history.

“China Blue” paints a nuanced, tender and ultimately moving portrait of the daily lives of the young workers who make our clothes. It also brings an updated and alarming report on the economic pressures applied by Western companies and their human consequences.

Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located in Beirut's "belt of misery," the camp is home to 15,000 Palestinians and Lebanese who share a common experience of displacement, unemployment and poverty. Fifty years after the exile of their grandparents from Palestine, the children of Shatila attempt to come to terms with the reality of being refugees in a camp that has survived massacre, siege and starvation.

When filmmaker Mai Masri returned to her hometown of Nablus after a fourteen year absence, she discovered a new generation of Palestinian fighters: the children of the Intifada.

CHICKEN ELECTIONS is a film about the contemporary society in rural Balkans. In this story an old Serbian peasant woman is trying to learn how to operate a used mobile phone given to her by her grandson, a local traffic policeman. Finally, when she somehow learns how to use it, she dies. Thus, this story turns into a metaphor of dying province and the absurdity of the development in transition countries. Chicken Election is funny, sad and beautifully ironic story about solitude, depopulation, about death before death.