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London Palestine Film Festival · 2009

London Palestine Film Festival 2009

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32 films · 2 reviews

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60 Units Of Time

This 60 second experimental short speaks to 60 years of Palestinian dispossession.

(Year: 2008; Director: Raad Raad)

Arthur Balfour And Me

What links Arthur J Balfour, the British Politician born in 1848 on a sumptuous family estate in East Lothian and Fatima, a young Palestinian woman, born in 1971 in a refugee camp in Lebanon and now seeking asylum in Glasgow?

(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Charlotte Cornic)

Divine Intervention (Yadon Ilaheyya)

Absurdist comedy from the heart of the Occupied Territories, Palestine.

(Country: France/Morocco/Germany/Palestine; Year: 2001; Director: Elia Suleiman; Writer: Elia Suleiman; Stars: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Nayef Fahoum Daher, Menashe Noy, Emma Boltawski, Salman Nattor)

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Easy, Easy

Set in rural Palestine in 1939 at the close of the Palestinian revolt against the British Mandate, Easy, Easy follows a Palestinian farmer and his family whose traditional rural lives are turned upside down when a Palestinian resistance fighter decides to hide in their small farm home.

(Year: 2008; Director: Riyad Deis)

Friendship's Death

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It is hard not to admire a film that manages, for all the shoestring meagreness of its budget, to be so broad in its ambitions.

Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
A war correspondent's conversation with an extraterrestrial amid the chaos of Black September.

(Country: UK; Year: 1987; Director: Peter Wollen; Writer: Peter Wollen; Stars: Ruby Baker, Patrick Bauchau, Joumana Gill, Bill Paterson, Tilda Swinton)

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Five Minutes From Home

Looking at the history of Jerusalem Aiport, now occupied by the Israeli Army.

(Year: 2008; Director: Nahed Awwad)

House Salad (Salata baladi)

A grandmother and her daughter try to teach her grandson about the family's history of mixed marriages.

(Country: Egypt, Switzerland, France; Year: 2007; Director: Nadia Kamel; Writer: Nadia Kamel)

Introduction To The End Of An Argument

Critique of Western representations of the Middle East, Arab culture, and the Palestinian people.

(Country: Canada; Year: 1990; Director: Jayce Salloum, Elia Suleiman)

John Berger Reads Ghassan Kanafani's 'Letter From Gaza'

A reading initially prepared for the May 2008 Palestine Festival of Literature. The reading is accompanied by imagery concerning the plight of Palestine.

(Year: 2008)

Laila's Birthday (Eid milad Laila)

A moving, often funny tale of a Palestinian taxi driver trying to get home in time for his daughter's birthday.

(Country: Palestine, Tunisia, Netherlands; Year: 2008; Director: Rashid Masharawi; Writer: Rashid Masharawi; Stars: Mohamed Bakri, Areen Omari, Nour Zoubi)

Memory Of The Cactus

Charting the history of displaced residents from three Palestinian villages.

(Year: 2008; Director: Hanna Musleh)

My Land

A couple's struggle for the right to build on their own land in Galilee.

(Year: 2005; Director: Tone Andersen)

Nakba: Palestine 1948 (Paresuchina 1948: Nakuba)

Exploration of the plight of a Palestinian village and its ramifications both in the past and today.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Ryuichi Hirokawa)

Open Heart

The problems of the Palestinian healthcare system as seen through the eyes of one family.

(Year: 2004; Director: Claire Fowler)

Palestine Remembered

Experimental video essay about attempts to establish an art school project in Palestine.

(Year: 2004; Director: Dominique Dubosc)

Recognized

Examining the plight of the Bedouin.

(Year: 2007; Director: Ori Kleiner)

R:Existence

Five women, returning to their devastated villages in southern Lebanon after the 2006 war, recount their experiences during the conflict.

(Year: 2006; Director: Marco Pasquini)

Salt Of This Sea (Le Sel De La Mer)

The odyssey of a US-born Palestinian woman who travels back to the land of her forebears.

(Country: Palestine, Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland; Year: 2008; Director: Annemarie Jacir; Writer: Annemarie Jacir; Stars: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Walid Abdul Salam, Jaber Abu Kaoud, Um Hussein Al Malhi, Iman Aoun, Yahya Barakat, Diana Buttu, Ismael Dabbag)

Sedition

Explores issues of youth and freedom of expression through the lives of young, politically progressive, Toronto based spoken word artists Rafeef Ziadah and Boonaa Mohammad.

(Year: 2008; Director: Min Sook Lee)

Shadow Of Absence

Explores the anxiety of Palestinian exile through an interrogation of relationships between place, home, and death

(Year: 2007; Director: Nasri Hajjaj)

Smile! You Are In South Lebanon

A vibrant Lebanese family portrait

(Year: 2008; Director: Dalia Al Kury)

A Space Exodus

Sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context.

(Year: 2008; Director: Larissa Sansour )

State Of Siege (État de siège)

The true story of the kidnapping by Marxist Tupamaro guerrillas of US 'regime change' consultant and torture expert Dan Mitrione in Uruguay in 1970.

(Country: France, West Germany, Italy; Year: 1972; Director: Costa-Gavras; Writer: Franco Solinas, Costa-Gavras, Franco Solinas; Stars: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau, Maurice Teynac, Yvette Etiévant, Evangeline Peterson, Harald Wolff, Nemesio Antúnez, Mario Montilles, André Falcon, Jerry Brouer, Roberto Navarrete, Douglas Harris)

Stranger In My Home

The stories of eight Palestinian Jerusalemite families that were twice turned into refugees in their own city.

(Year: 2007; Director: Sahera Dirbas)

A Summer Not To Forget

On July 12th 2006, Hezbollah captured 2 Israeli soldiers. For the following 34 days, Lebanon witnessed continuous Israeli bombardment. This documentary takes you beyond the news headlines into the harsh realities of war.

(Year: 2007; Director: Carole Mansour)

Take Me Home

This is the journey one Jordanian Palestinian woman takes whenever she crosses the border to visit her grandmother and great aunt in Damascus.

(Year: 2008; Director: Mais Darwazah )

La Terre Parle Arabe

Focus on the Zionism movement and their goal of creating a Jewish state.

(Year: 2007; Director: Maryse Gargour)

This Way Up (Le jardin de Jad)

Construction of the Israeli barrier wall from the perspective of old folks' home residents.

(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Georgi Lazarevski; Writer: Georgi Lazarevski)

To My Father

Poetic homage to the studio photographers of the 1950s to 1970s.

(Year: 2008; Director: Abdelsalam Shehadeh)

The View

The story of an Israeli sniper who takes aim at an unsuspecting Palestinian couple.

(Year: 2008; Director: Hazim Bitar, Rifqi Assaf)

Welcome To Shatila

Short portrait of the refugee camp.

(Year: 2008; Director: Raad Raad)

We Like Life Tomorrow

Three Palestinian families document their own lives.

(Year: 2008; Director: Ismail Habbash)