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OMAR
In the opening scene we see Omar scaling the impossible high wall that the Occupying Forces have erected that not just separates Palestinians from Jews, but also Palestinians from each other. He is going to meet up with his best friends Tarak and Amjad to plan their first ever terrorist activity. Tarak mentions a Brigade…
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THE UNKNOWN KNOWN
Oscar winning filmmaker and documentarian extraordinaire Errol Morris’s latest ‘subject’ makes for compelling viewing even though he is best summed up by two very simple words ‘smug’ and ‘arrogant’. Donald Henry Rumsfeld seems to have more lives than a cat since he first burst into the public arena in 1962 when he was elected to Congress…
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Test
When the AIDS epidemic first started back in the early 1980’s the air was rife with panic and dramatic rumors that took the place of hard facts about the disease that were so few and far in between. Nowhere more so than in San Francisco home to a significantly large gay community. By 1985 when…
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DANCING IN JAFFA
Renowned world champion ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine returns to his home town of Jaffa for the very first time since his family fled when he was just 4 years old. At that time when the state of Israel was established the majority of the Arab population were pushed out, and those that remained became Palestinian Israelis.…
