LOOKMOVIE

Tag: palestine

  • A Woman Called Golda

    —

    by

    admin
    in , , ,

    The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel’s prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

  • Chronicle of a Disappearance

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing…

  • War Photographer

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

  • Divine Intervention

    —

    by

    admin
    in , , ,

    Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It’s one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel – in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through…

  • Paradise Now

    —

    by

    admin
    in , , , ,

    Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

  • Louis Theroux: The Settlers

    —

    by

    admin
    in , ,

    14 years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.

  • To a Land Unknown

    —

    by

    admin
    in , , ,

    The stakes couldn’t be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens, but when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get…

  • Lemon Tree

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank’s occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees’ removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad…

  • Waltz with Bashir

    —

    by

    admin
    in , , , ,

    An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

  • Propaganda

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.

  • The Time That Remains

    —

    by

    admin
    in , ,

    An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land…

  • Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    A thought-provoking documentary on the current and historical causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.