Hot Docs ’26: House of Hope
Marjolein Busstra’s House of Hope lets us into a school in the West Bank run by Palestinian couple, Manar and Milad.
Tag: Palestine
The Voice of Hind Rajab: Why We Can’t Look Away
Hind Rajab is one of those films that just makes you feel empty inside. The urgent documentary pieces shown at the end of the film become just as urgent, as live footage of someone under threat makes us feel the weight of what the Palestinian people face every day.
The Voice of Hind Rajab: Listening to the dead
A popular poster in dorm rooms when I was in college read, “War is not healthy for children and...
AFIFest: Day 4
The T-shirt for this year’s AFIFest Presented by Canva has a quotation from the Guest Artistic...
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...