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Salt of this sea [videorecording] / by Al Malhi, Um Hussein.; Awad, Faras.; Bakri, Saleh.; Bidou, Jacques.; Blilious, Edna.; Chamaillard, Benôit.; Dumoulin, Marianne.; Hammad, Suheir.; Hubinon, Michèle.; Ideis, Riyad.; Jacir, Annemarie.; Rastegar, Kamran.; Kino Lorber, Inc.; Pyramide international (Firm);
Director of photography, Benoit Chamaillard ; editor, Michèle Hubinon ; music, Kamran Rastegar.Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Um Hussein Al Malhi, Edna Blilious, Faras Awad.Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather's savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Direct, stubborn, and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of "returning" to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it's illegal.14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital stereo.
Subjects: Bank accounts; Feature films.; Foreign films; Jewish-Arab relations; Motion pictures, Palestinian.; Palestinian Arabs;
© c2010., Kino Lorber, Inc.,
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Lemon tree [videorecording (DVD)] / by Abbass, Hiam.; Lipaz-Michael, Rona.; Suliman, Ali.; Tavory, Doron.; 2DF.Enterprises.; Arte France cinéma (Firm); Canal +.; IFC Films.; Israeli Film Fund (Firm); Metro Communications (Firm); Seville Pictures.; United King Films (Firm);
Edited by Tova Ascher ; Music by Habib Shehadeh Hanna.Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Doron Tavory.Salma, a Palestinian widow - living there for decades - , has to stand up against her new neighbor, the Israeli Defense Minister, when he moves into his new house opposite her lemon grove, on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. The Israeli security forces are quick to declare that Salma's trees pose a threat to the Ministers safety and issue orders to uproot them. Together with Ziad Daud, a young Palestinian lawyer, Salma goes all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court to try and save her trees. Her struggle raises the interest of Mira Navon, the Defense ministers wife, trapped in her new home and in an unhappy life. Despite their differences and the borders between them the two women develop an invisible bond, while forbidden ties grow stronger between Salma and Ziad.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films; Fruit trees; Government property; Motion pictures, Israeli.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Widows;
© c2009., Distributed by Seville Pictures,
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Miral [videorecording] / by Abbass, Hiam.; Ben Ammar, Tarek.; Dafoe, Willem.; Decraene, Franȯis-Xavier.; Gautier, Eric,1961-; Jebreal, Rula.; Jebreal, Rula.Strada dei fiori di Miral.Videorecording.; Kilik, Jon.; Pinto, Freida,1984-; Redgrave, Vanessa,1937-; Schnabel, Julian,1951-; Siddig, Alexander,1965-; Welfling, Juliette.; Alliance Films.; Canal+ España (Firm); Cine͡cine͡ma (Firm); Eagle Pictures (Firm); Er Productions (Firm); India Take One Productions (Firm); Pathé Productions.; Weinstein Company.;
Executive producer, François-Xavier Decraene ; cinematography, Eric Gautier ; editing, Juliette Welfling.Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, Willem Dafoe, Vanessa Redgrave, Alexander Siddig.After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; PAL, region 2 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; widescreen presentation.Official selection, Venice Film Festival, 2010
Subjects: Jebreal, Rula.; Arab-Israeli conflict; Feature films.; Orphanages; Orphans; Palestinian Arabs; Schoolgirls; Terrorists;
© c2011., Weinstein Company ; Distributed by Alliance Films,
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Bethlehem [videorecording] / by Adler, Yuval.; Halevi, Tsahi.; Kleinhendler, Talia.; Mari, Shadi.; Omari, Hitham.; Waked, Ali.; Adopt Films.; Pie Films (Firm); WestEnd Films.;
Tsahi Halevi, Shadi Mar'i, Hitham Omari.The complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the film is a raw portrayal of characters torn apart by competing loyalties and impossible moral dilemmas, giving an unparalleled glimpse into the dark and fascinating world of human intelligence.14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films; Informers; Motion pictures, Israeli.; Secret service; Thrillers (Motion pictures);
© c2013., Adopt Films,
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Tel Aviv on fire [videorecording] / by Nashif, Kais,actor.; Azabal, Lubna,actor.; Biton, Yaniv,1978-actor.; Zoabi, Sameh,screenwriter,film director.; Cohen Media Group,publisher.;
Kais Nashif, Yaniv Biton, Lubna Azabal, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadim Sawalha.When a young Palestinian man, who has never done any creative writing in his life, as a result of unlikely circumstances becomes a screenwriter for a popular soap opera, an Israeli officer at the checkpoint that he passes daily, whose wife is a big fan of the show, agrees to help him with the plot ideas in exchange for a promise that the series will end with a wedding, but the Palestinian program's financial backers have a different ending in mind and the screenwriter ends up being caught in the middle.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Arab.; Motion pictures, Israeli.; Foreign films.; Television soap operas.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Screenwriters; Television;
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Harmonia. by Sivan, Ori,film director.; Suliman, Ali,actor.; Aboutboul, Alon,actor.; Sharon, Tali,actor.; Yossef, Yana,actor.; Film Movement (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Ali Suliman, Alon Aboutboul, Tali Sharon, Yana YossefOriginally produced by Film Movement in 2016.A contemporary variation of the biblical story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar. Sarah, a harpist of the Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra is married to Abraham, its conductor. When Hagar, a young Palestinian horn player joins the orchestra, the thin balance in their family is shaken. HARMONIA uncovers the metaphoric emotional roots of the ancient conflict between the two peoples living in Jerusalem, now seeking harmony through a dramatic encounter between Western and Eastern music.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.;
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Alam. by Khoury, Firas,film director.; Bakri, Mahmoud,actor.; Karaki, Mohammad,actor.; Bakri, Saleh,actor.; Khass, Sereen,actor.; Film Movement (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Mahmoud Bakri, Mohammad Karaki, Saleh Bakri, Sereen KhassOriginally produced by Film Movement in 2022.Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsily search for drugs, flirt with girls, play video games, and slack off at school. However, when a beautiful new student named Maysaá joins their class, Tamer immediately falls for her and, by association, is drawn into her political activism. Unsure of his own political convictions, Tamer must quickly determine what matters to him and what price he is willing to pay for freedom.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Coming of age.;
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