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Attendees line the red carpet at the Karama Gaza Film Festival in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, May 13, 2015. (Photo by Dan Cohen)
Even in Gaza, you can’t have a film festival without a red carpet
The human rights film festival sends a message that Gaza is not just a strip of flattened homes, poverty and militants, as the media tends to portray it, says one of the organizers. ‘The people of Gaza are human beings, who love life, who seek peace, and who want to go to the movies, to…
By +972 Magazine May 14, 2015
Image from the Israeli film Policeman (© 2014 Corinth Films)
Film Review: ‘Policeman,’ a study of the Israeli alpha male
By leaving the Palestinian conflict in the background, filmmaker Lapid manages to skip over the common ‘shooting-and-crying’ formula, in which Israeli protagonists are portrayed more as victims than perpetrators of the conflict. The timing of the release of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s debut, “Policeman,” was very unique in Israel: October 2011, right after that summer’s…
By Noam Sheizaf June 21, 2014
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