Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideEmid Burnat is a Palestinian farmer who works the same land that his family have done for generations in Bil’in on the West Bank and this movie is his firsthand account when the village is threatened by the encroaching Israeli Settlements. This highly personal documentary film bears witness to how the non-violent resistance by the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLouie is a 32 year old Palestinian who tries to live his life unobtrusively hidden away from society’s prying eyes. He has no legal right to live in Israel, and thus without ‘papers’ he must continually avoid any confrontation with the Police or officialdom, as if he returns back across the Border he risks the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis rather odd little tale starts with a rather forlorn 13 year old girl arriving at Jerusalem airport from California and feeling abandoned and looking for someone to meet her. That someone is her father Shaul who she has not seen for some time, and has yet to discover that he is a homeless drifter … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe opening scene of this film is a ceremony where Uriel Shkolnik is being honored as a new member of the prestigious Israeli Academy, and the camera stays completely focused on Eliezer his father who sits in the audience totally stony-faced even when Uriel is lavishly praising him. It neatly sets the whole timbre of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 2003 the Israeli Government started construction on a Separation Fence in the Occupied West Bank BUT instead of going along the border line of the area, it cut right through Palestinian land. So much so, its planned route would have isolated six villages that would have then become completely land-locked. One of them was Budrus, and … Continue reading
