November 17, 2009
Films From and About Palestine
A part of TIME at WORK • Detroit
Tuesday, November 17th, 7pm-9pm
An Evening of films from and about Palestine
Curated by Toby Millman and Tirtza Even
EAST TO WEST
A documentary directed by ENAS MUTHAFFAR
16 minutes, 2005
In 2004, a wall is being built and the family of Enas must leave their home so they don’t find themselves on the wrong side. It is the father’s second experience. He was born in a house in Jaffa, but in 1948 he had to leave. Between Jerusalem and Jaffa - to each generation its own move.
BIL’IN HABIBTI (BILIN MY LOVE)
A documentary directed by SHAI CARMELI POLLAK
52 Minutes
2006
BIL’IN HABIBTI tells the story of a small Palestinian village trying to save itself and to break the occupation in a non-violent resistance against the Israeli Army. Under the pretext of security, the village of Bil’in is about to lose more than half of its lands to the Israeli separation fence and to the neighbouring Israeli settlement. In an attempt to stop the bulldozers, tear gas, beatings, arrests and live ammunition, the villagers confront the army in creative weekly demonstrations. It’s not an ordinary documentary, because after following the struggle, in dozens of other villages, Shai Carmeli-Pollak arrives in Bil’in first and foremost, as an activist fighting the occupation and only then as filmmaker. He stays for more than a year and accompanies the village’s struggle, focusing on two people that become real friends: Mohamed, a member of the village’s local committee against the fence, and Wagee, an olive tree farmer and father of ten, who is losing the majority of his land to the fence.
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