Resources

Films

Palestine Pre-1947
 The old lie that Palestine was a dry desert waiting for a people is just that – a lie. This clip allows people to see the beauty of the Palestinian people before they were ethnically cleansed and murdered and made into refugees by the state of Israel. Music by Rodrigo, Lyrics and vocals by Helmut Lotti

link to film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEBQ_bE7uA

“NAKBA Palestine 1948”, Japan:
 A testimony of the Palestinian villages razed by the foundation of Israel by a Japanese photo journalist whose attention to the Palestinian plight was first raised by two Palestinian girls struggling to cope with the 1982 massacre in the Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. In Japanese, by Ryuichi Hirokawa, 134 min, 2008, Yasuoka Films: http://nakba.jp

"Stranger in my home", Jerusalem:

Documentary film for 40th anniversary of the war 1967 and 60 years of Al-Nakba 1948. It describes the Palestinian occupied homes in the neighborhoods of Baqaa, Talbiyeh, Katamon, Mosrarah in West Jerusalem through their Palestinian refugees owners.

Synopsis: the Documentary film is based on oral history. It relates the stories of eight Palestinian Jerusalemite families that have been turned into refugees in their own city. After 40 years they recall the events that occurred in the Moghrabi Quarter of Jerusalem during the 1967 war. Each family goes to see its house which was occupied in 1948.The houses are located in the Baqa'a, Talbiyeh,Qatamon and Mosrarah neighborhoods of what is now West Jerusalem. Some of the families enter their former homes and have a discussion with the Israeli tenants currently occupying their homes. Also includes an interview with the Israeli architect David Kroyanker who wrote books about these houses.

Filmmaker
Sahera Dirbas
Jerusalem
Email:saherad@yahoo.com
Tel;00972 2 6718634
or 00972 54 7440290

Now available in Arabic and English subtitles at:
 Palestine Online Store:
 www.palestineonlinestore.com/films/stranger.html

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