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Why the Polish gov’t has this left-wing Israeli filmmaker in its crosshairs
What happens when a film challenges one of Poland's nationalist myths? Barak Heymann found out the hard way when his latest documentary questioned the number of Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust.
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Libby Lenkinski
July 27, 2022
Confession without consequence
A film about a 1982 war crime in Lebanon shows Israeli soldiers are more open to divulging their violent actions. But their search for exoneration without accountability says much about Israeli society's moral decay.
By
Seth Anziska
July 26, 2022
Looted from Beirut 35 years ago, now on display in Tel Aviv
‘Looted and Hidden’ digs through the archive of films taken by the Israeli army in 1982, and shines light on more property stolen by Israel: the history of Palestinian cinema. Rare images from the archive of Palestinian films and photographs, documenting decades of Palestinian history from before 1948 and after the Nakba, are finally seeing…
By
Rami Younis
December 4, 2017
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Even in Gaza, you can’t have a film festival without a red carpet
The human rights film festival sends a message that Gaza is not just a strip of flattened homes, poverty and militants, as the media tends to portray it, says one of the organizers. ‘The people of Gaza are human beings, who love life, who seek peace, and who want to go to the movies, to…
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+972 Magazine
May 14, 2015
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…
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Noam Sheizaf
June 21, 2014
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,…
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Activestills
May 9, 2014
From Lincoln Tunnel to Rabin Square: Legacies of bold leaders, and assassination
Perhaps the greatest similarity between Abraham Lincoln and Yitzhak Rabin is that both men’s assassins succeeded in altering history. Following Lincoln’s death the reconstruction of the American south was abandoned and the Supreme Court accepted the notion of ‘separate yet equal.’ Following Rabin’s assassination, the occupation of the West Bank and the Palestinian people has…
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+972 Magazine
March 27, 2013
WATCH: Films explore human side of Sheikh Jarrah protest
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2u5MwVNPHo[/youtube] The affluent Palestinian East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has become, in the words of one observer, the new battleground of the Israeli left. By now, most readers of +972 are familiar with the story of struggle and dispossession which has typified the Sheikh Jarrah protest movement. In early 2009, Jewish settlers, backed by American-funded organizations…
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Joseph Dana
October 12, 2011
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