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Deir Jassin Remembered considers the repercussions of the largely forgotten massacre of almost 100 Palestinians in 1948. The massacre at Deir Yassin was pivotal to Palestinian dispossession.
Moving from one hotel in Bethlehem to another in East Jerusalem, the filmmaker encounters a series of problems involving a ceiling, a video camera and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries is a series of video recordings which relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East. In these works, which play upon chance and co-incidence, the hotel room is employed as a 'found' film set, where the architecture, furnishing and decoration become the means by which the filmmaker's small adventures are linked to major world events. Works in the series include Frozen War (Ireland, 2001), Museum Piece (Germany, 2004), Throwing Stones (Switzerland, 2004), B & B (England, 2005), Pyramids/Skunk (The Netherlands 2006/7), Dirty Pictures (Palestine 2007) and Six Years Later (Ireland 2007).
Ibrahim, 24 years old, lives together with his family and friends trapped in a ghetto and under Israeli military occupation. The ghetto is known as Qalquilia. In reality, it is a city completely surrounded by a 9 meters concrete wall and a several kilometre-long wire fence where 40,000 Palestinians who are posed as a “security threat” by Israel are caged. Hassan lives also trapped in the cage. Qalquilia is the first caged city since the ghetto in Warsaw. A sad truth that the victim learns some of the worst practices from his killers...
A workshop in which eleven women from Nablus used a camera for the first time and were able to make their own films. This documentary shows a slice of life today in the city of Nablus.
A personal reportage focusing on concrete actions by Israelis, Palestinians and Internationals working together in the face of, and against, current agendas to displace Palestinians and to limit their movements.
The documentary follows the taxi-van driver Rajai who tries to live and survive in Jerusalem and Ramallah. We see the problems in the region through his eyes. Rajai is the guide in the labyrinth of war, occupation and resistance in a chaotic area. He leads us over detours and mountain dusty roads passed the roadblocks and bit by bit we get to know more about him and his thoughts. The passengers in the van, the places he gets to and the activities he explores besides driving a taxi conjure up a divers image of the situation in Palestine and of Rajai himself.
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American documentary filmmaker James Longley travelled to the Gaza Strip in January of 2001, planning to stay for two weeks and collect preliminary material for a film about the Palestinian intifada. He threw away his return ticket and stayed for another 3 months, shooting over 75 hours of material throughout the Gaza Strip. GAZA STRIP follows a range of people and events following the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, including the first major armed incursion into "Area A" by IDF forces during this intifada. The film is filmed almost entirely in a verite style, presented without narration and with little explanation, focusing on ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians and pundits.
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A film that recounts the situation in Gaza in the wake of Operation Cast Lead. As the filmmakers explain, “We came to Gaza the day after the start of the war and discovered the extent of the Gaza-strophy.”
'It's when the mind fails to catch the necessary details, and gives a cloudy picture'. But the picture here is clear, since life was a grain of wheat until it became a bloodshedding. It's when the heart loses its way home, if it changes its name. But the oil here lights, from Jerusalem to Nazareth. It's what the eyes, tired of long sleep, see. But the eyes here are open, haven't closed for years. It could be a child looking for the necessary serenity to meditate. His feet led him to the cemetery. It could be. (Jayce Salloum, fragment).
