AFIFest: Day 4
The T-shirt for this year’s AFIFest Presented by Canva has a quotation from the Guest Artistic...
Tag: Palestine
No Other Land: A story about power
“This is a story about power.” The Oscar®-nominated documentary No Other Land is a collaboration between Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor, two are Israeli and two Palestinian. It is not a far-reaching in...
Three Promises: Home movies of a war zone
Three Promises, from Yousef Srouji, is the story of a family living through a very difficult...
H2: The Occupation Lab
The Israeli-Palestinian situation is obviously complex and often controversial. It has been an...
Alam: Raising a flag of independence
“My dad used to say that the beginning of liberation is to raise your flag. The highest level of...
Mourning in Lod: A personal look at Israeli-Palestinian pain
Even before the current violence in Gaza, the history of Israeli-Palestinian interactions has been...
Bye Bye Tiberias – A home left behind
Lina Soualem’s Bye Bye Tiberias is essentially a way for the filmmaker to get a better...
What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace
“Undoubtedly, the tremendous forces of history will cause the leader to fail to change reality as...
Tantura – Uncovering a buried truth
?The truth has its own power. . . . The power of the truth cannot be hidden, and when it?s hot, it...
Slamdance 2022 – More shorts (including some award winners)
Yes, there are more films to cover from Slamdance, especially short films, so let?s catch up on...
Day 2 at AFI Docs
The films I?ve chosen for today are very much focused on issues that touch the lives of many...
No More Masks; Israel Conflict; The End for the Church?; Resident Evil 8
In this jam-packed, lightning round episode of the Your Sunday Drive podcast, we cover four fascinating topics in just one hour! First, mask mandates go away as we seem to be approaching the end of the pandemic. What’s our...
A Look at the Oscar? Nominated Live Action Shorts
When it is time to award the best in films each year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and...