Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
Promised Lands
Overview
An Israeli director currently living in Berlin returns to Israel to meet some of her friends from primary school. She learns what has been happening in their lives since their paths parted while we get a glimpse of different Israelis.
More films
Promises (2001)
Documentary · N/A
Documentarians Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg traveled to Israel to interview Palestinian and Israeli kids ages 11 to 13, assembling their views on living in a society afflicted with violence, separatism and religious and political extremism. This 2002 Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary culminates in an astonishing day in wh...
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Director
- Justine Shapiro, Carlos Bolado
- Cast
- Moishe Bar Am, B. Z. Goldberg, Sanabel Hassan
Bil'in My Love (2006)
Documentary · N/A
The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palestinian territory at the village of Bil'in. The villagers protest mostly peacefully, while the Israeli army doesn't react peacefully. By now the Israeli High Court has ruled that the building of the wall was illegal.
- Runtime
- 55m
- Director
- Shai Carmeli-Pollak
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority (2006)
Documentary · N/A
A thought-provoking documentary on the current and historical causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Director
- Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish
- Cast
- Alison Weir, Noam Chomsky
Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Animation · Documentary · Drama · War · R
A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Director
- Ari Folman
- Cast
- Ron Ben-Yishai, Mickey Leon
Wrestling Jerusalem (2016)
Documentary · N/A
Writer-actor Aaron Davidman embodies seventeen different characters in and around the sacred city of Jerusalem as he takes us on an eye-opening journey into the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian story. Exploring universal questions of identity and human connection, the film is about one man's effort to embrace a multiplicity of conflict...
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Cast
- Aaron Davidman
Comments
Talk about the film with other members