Promises

original title:
Promises
other titles:
(Hass und Hoffnung - Kinder im Nahostkonflikt)
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original length:
105 min. , color
premiere:
30 January 2001, NL
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plot synopsis:
This film tells about the lives of seven Israeli and Palestinian children in Jerusalem, who all look at the aspects of the conflict from a different point of view. These children, aged between eight and 13, report about their life and situation in an unbiased way.
Although there are just 20 minutes of way seperating them, they seem to live in two completely different worlds. Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg, the two directors and authors, try to find out about the borderline between these children and tell stories of some of them crossing this line.
literature:
Philipp Misselwitz (Hg.). City of Collision. Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006.
remarks:
Nominated for Oscar in 2002.

another 12 wins and 3 nominations.

This film-project is a non-profit-production and the shooting took more than five years.
Members of the advisory committee to this film were Yossi Sarid, member of the Israeli parliament, Hanan Ashrawi, former speaker of the Palestinians, The Very Reverend James Parks, the deceased Lea Rabin and Debra Winger.

Homepage: http://www.promisesproject.org/
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