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
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Personal images on a beach in Tel Aviv collide with broadcast images from a beach in Gaza. Private tranquility turns into public horror in an instant, and possibilities of reality are repressed, raising perceptual and existential questions.
“Avenge But One of My Two Eyes” is a ramble between three arenas at the height of the “El Aqsa” Intifada: the practice of the Masada cult, reinvented in the mid-1940s and interwoven with the leading Zionist discourse, the condition of oppression and besiegement of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, and the continuous religious and secular cult of Samson, aka “Samson the Hero”. Real places, times and situations penetrate one another and integrate, presenting the Israeli reality as it is: embroiled, violent, suicidal.
UntitledKuma War is more than just a game, it is an interactive chronicle of the war on terror with real news coverage and an original video news show for each mission. Kuma tells the stories of soldiers on the ground by putting players in their boots. Stop watching the news and get in the game! “This is not like playing Unreal, this is the re-creation of a scenario that soldiers overseas have and are experiencing. That's a big difference” - Hollywood Reporter.
Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)Yussuf carried out a suicide bombing in Hadera in 2001, Ashraf was killed by the Israeli army in the battle in the Jenin refugee camp and Ala lead the Al Aqsa Brigades in Jenin until he was killed in November 2002. Juliano Mer Khamis knew them since they were small children and documented them from 1989-1996 in the theatre group he directed. In April 2002 he returns to Jenin with his camera in order to discover what happened to the children he knew and loved. Juliano Mer Khamis is the son of the Jewish Arna Mer and a Palestinian who got married in the 50's. Juliano is today one of the region's leading actors. Arna Mer established an alternative educational system in teh West Bank to replace the formal one that was practically paralysed by the Israeli occupation. Arna?s Children offers a prime connection between past and present, for Juliano Mer Khamis return to Jenin made him see how everything had changed...
This film seeks the truth behind one of the most mysterious Nazi propaganda films ever shot inside the Warsaw Ghetto: a silent film that meticulously placed staged scenes of Jews enjoying a life of luxury in the ghetto alongside other chilling images that required no staging at all. Ironically, after the war, filmmakers and museums used fragments of the film as objective, general illustrations to accompany narratives of survivors and other written documents. Few people were aware of the dubious manner in which these images were created and the true but inconceivable reality that they bear witness to. The cinematic deception was forgotten and the black and white images remained etched in memory as historical truth.A Film Unfinished shakes our naive trust in photographic images and the way we perceive the historical past.
UntitledIn Israel's occupied territories, thousands of Palestinians work illegally as construction laborers. After an arduous and dangerous journey,loaded with blankets and bags, they cross the hills to the places where they can find employment. At night they sleep on the hillcrests in improvised huts and coffin-like sleeping cubicles, a stark contrast to the luxury apartment complexes they build by day. But they have made homes for themselves, complete with cosy pillows and even power generated by batteries they have scraped together. In 9 Star Hotel, the filmmakers follow Ahmed and Muhammad, one a merry collector of found objects, the other a philosophical criticaster of the Palestinian character ("We think backward. We never think forward."). Together, they share food, belongings and stories, and live under the constant threat of getting arrested -police, soldiers and the secret service are all tirelessly on the alert for illegal workers. With raw, handheld images, this disconcerting yet touching film documents friendship, nostalgia and the uncompromising urge to survive.