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| . Friday, September 4, 2009 Opening Night Screenings at Bijou Theatre - 4522 Fredericksburg Rd Tickets: $5 Presale from Esperanza | $9 Day of Show at Bijou Box Office | 210.228.0201. . |
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Daggit Gaza Politics, food, and family are the topics of a phone conversation between Houston and Gaza that serves as voiceover commentary to the preparation of a spicy tomato salad. Hadeel and Iman are Houston-based filmmakers and cofounders of the Houston Palestine Film Festival. Filmmakers Hadeel Assali & Iman Saqr will be present at this screening. |
dir. Hadeel Assali & Iman Saqr 2009, USA, 8 min Arabic with English subtitles |
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People Not Places This docu-music-video is based on the song of the same name by Invincible featuring Abeer and Suhell Nafar (DAM). Invincible exposes the process of historic and continued colonization of Palestine as being even deeper than land seizure and ethnic cleansing, but one that attempts to erase the indigenous language, culture, and memory of Palestinians. Invincible will be present at this screening. |
dir. Iqaa the Olivetone 2009, USA/Palestine, 12 min English/Arabic with English Subtitles website |
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Lemon Tree Salma, a Palestinian widow, has to stand up against her new neighbor, the Israeli Defense minister, when he moves into his house opposite her lemon grove, on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. The Israeli security forces are quick to declare that Salma’s trees pose a threat to the Minister’s safety and issue orders to uproot them. Together with Ziad Daud, her young Palestinian lawyer, Salma goes all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court to try and save her trees. Her struggle raises the interest of Mira Navon, the Defense minister’s wife, who is trapped in her new home and in an unhappy life. Despite their differences and the borders between them the two women develop an invisible bond, while forbidden ties grow stronger between Salma and Ziad. |
dir. Eran Riklis 2008, Israel/Germany/France, 106 min Arabic/Hebrew with English subtitles |
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