Take 3 + Khirbet Hiza'a

Take 3 | Ayelet Bechar | 15 min | 2015

From a few black- and -white frames of a Palestinian refugee praying in a 1969 documentary and some colour frames of the same man in a 2000 documentary, a reflection starts on the meaning and the ethics of cinema : what kind of influence do genre and style have on content? What can the relation between a filmmaker and their subjects be? Above all, can an Israeli filmmaker describe and communicate the experience and emotions of a Palestinian refugee?

Khirbet Hiza'a | Ram Loevy | 48 min | 1978

This fiction film interpretation of Israeli writer S. Yizhar short novella of the same name tells the story of an Israeli brigade invading and ethnically cleansing a Palestinian village in 1948. In 1978, when the film was supposed to premiere the first of Israel's right wing Likkud governments came into power…