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'Netanyahu at War' Frontline
‘Netanyahu at War’: An engaging but deeply flawed documentary
Twenty three men and three women tell the captivating story of Netanyahu’s rise to power, and how he ended up on a collision course with the leader of the free world. Yes, 23 men and three women. “Netanyahu at War,” a PBS Frontline documentary about Benjamin Netanyahu’s rise to power and the background to his…
By Lisa Goldman January 5, 2016
Image from the Israeli film Policeman (© 2014 Corinth Films)
Film Review: ‘Policeman,’ a study of the Israeli alpha male
By leaving the Palestinian conflict in the background, filmmaker Lapid manages to skip over the common ‘shooting-and-crying’ formula, in which Israeli protagonists are portrayed more as victims than perpetrators of the conflict. The timing of the release of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s debut, “Policeman,” was very unique in Israel: October 2011, right after that summer’s…
By Noam Sheizaf June 21, 2014
Jana Tamimi in the movie “Sometimes I’m Scared. Sometimes I Hit”
Film on Nabi Saleh’s kids competes for int’l awards
A new film ventures to allow Palestinian children to ‘describe a world full of violence and politics, of death and prisons, of conflicts and pain, a world created for them by the grownups. To let them explain this world to us, to describe it to us simply, with the clarity and naïveté that they still retain,…
By Activestills May 9, 2014
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"When I Saw You", a film by Annemarie Jacir. (Photo: Courtesy)
Why can’t we walk back?: A conversation with Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir
‘When I Saw You’ tells the story of a Palestinian child in 1967 who refuses to accept his fate as a refugee. Writer and director Annemarie Jacir discusses what led her to make the film and what lessons its carries. By Frank Barat Returning to Palestine is a recurring theme in Annemarie Jacir’s films. Unlike…
By +972 Magazine December 13, 2013
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