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Summer 2006, Palestine
Palestine, 2006, 35 min, 2006, Beta SP PAL/NTSC and DVD PAL/NTSC
In Arabic with English subtitles
Both established as well as new Palestinian filmmakers came together in a project that reflects the “mood” of the summer of 2006 when Israel carried out military assaults in Gaza and Lebanon. In three minutes or less, filmmakers were asked to tell their stories in a single shot. Despite the fact that Palestinians have been dispersed across the globe, with the majority of them unable to return to their homeland, “Summer 2006, Palestine”, initiated by the Palestinian Film Collective, was limited to those filmmakers who live in Palestine.
The result is a mosaic of 13 short films, each less than 3 minutes in length, produced across Palestine that convey the personal, political and poetic spirit of a people struggling for freedom.
Films:
red, dead and mediterranean
akram al ashqar
security leak
rowan al faqih
checkmate
amer shomali
jenan
riyad deis
flee
ahmad habash
coffee & cigarettes
ismael habbash
sound of the street
annemarie jacir
football on a thursday afternoon
liana bader
ferkesh (called off)
may odeh
trafic
mohanad yaqubi
a world apart within 15 minutes
enas muthaffar
to the arabs of haifa a special message...
razi najjar
not just any sea
nahed awwad
Credits:
Produced by the Palestinian Filmmakers’ Collective & Akka Films
Concept/idea: Ismael Habbash, Annemarie Jacir, Raed Andoni
Editing: Nahed Awwad, Annemarie Jacir
Closing Music: Kamran Rastegar
Executive Producers: Rowan Al Faqih, Nahed Awwad
Co-Producer: Nicolas Wadimoff
Sound Editing: Sylvian Thiellein, Many Hangrecker
The Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective:
Founded in late 2005, the Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective is a totally independent, volunteer-based collective founded and run by filmmakers. Our goals include working with our community to screen films, share our technical and artistic skills, help make Palestinian films and information more widely available, create a Palestinian video library and organize activities and projects that promote Palestinian cinema.
Filmmakers Biographies
Nahed Awwad has been working in television and films since 1997. In 2003 she studied for one year in the European Film College in Denmark. In 2002 she made her first film Lions, followed by Going for a Ride?, 25 KM, and The Fourth Room in 2005. She is currently working on a new film, working title Landing in Jerusalem Airport.
Enas I. Muthaffar was born and raised in Jerusalem. She obtained a BA in film direction from the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo, Egypt, and an MA in Feature Film from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Muthaffar has worked as an assistant director and script supervisor on several Palestinian film productions, such as Paradise Now, Be Quiet, and Rana's Wedding. She has completed several short drama and documentary films, and is currently preparing to produce her first feature length film, Can't Be News.
Liana Badr is an author and filmmaker living in Ramallah. She wrote and directed many documentaries, several of which have earned honorary prizes. Her publications, which have been translated into many languages, include three novels, five stories, eight children’s books, one book of poetry, and a dialogue with Fadwa Touqan.
Annemarie Jacir is a Palestinian filmmaker and writer who has been working in independent film since 1994 and has written, directed, and produced a number of films including A Post Oslo History (1998), The Satellite Shooters (2001) and Like Twenty Impossibles (2003). She is a founder and chief curator of the groundbreaking Dreams of a Nation cinema project, and also works as a freelance editor and cinematographer. Her work has screened in Cannes, Venice, Locarno, and Berlin. Jacir is currently producing her first feature film, Salt of this Sea.
Mohanad Al-Yaqubi was born in Kuwait in 1981, and obtained a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Berziet University in 2004. He is a founder and productions director of Idioms Film (Audio-visual production). His films include: Fix (2004), Carnival (2004), Rawaq (2005), Out of Cigarettes (2005), Insomnia (2005), June, 2006 (2006), and Traffic (2006).
Amer Shomali is a Palestinian artist who works as multimedia designer at Birzeit University and ZAN Studio in Ramallah, Palestine. He uses art to support local and international political campaigns by creating political cartoons and short animation films.
Ahmad Habash, is a filmmaker turned animator and visual effect artist. He is interested in the experience of various art forms and mixed media as an alternative language used to express deeper aesthetic contents. He is currently working on a master’s degree in 3D Computer Animation at Bournemouth University in the UK.
Akram Al Ashkar is a filmmaker in Tulkarem who has been making short home videos since he was a child. He graduated from the Arab American University in 2006 with a degree in Computer Information Technology. His films include: Red, Dead, Mediterranean (2006), Paper War (2007), and The first Image (2006).
Riyad Deis studied film in San Francisco. He has directed two short narrative films and now lives and works in his native city, Jerusalem.
Rowan Al Faqih was born in Jerusalem, and is currently living and working in Ramallah. She is one of the founders of the Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective and producer of Palestine, Summer 2006 film collection. Her first film, Summer of '85 was selected at various film festivals including Oberhausen, Locarno, and Docusur.
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