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These films were selected according to the year of production in the different eras that reflect the way the Israeli filmmakers pictured and presented the Palestinians.

Trying to enrich this academic and research approach the festival aims to provoke and to develop an academic research vision in order to study the "Other" through cinema that is considered an important cultural mean.

Seminars and open discussions will take place during the festival, hosting Palestinian educates and Palestinian cinema specialists.

Seminars:

The Arab Image in the Israeli Syllabuses - Analytical Study for the Israeli Syllabuses applied in the Israeli Schools

By Dr. Ghassan Abdullah

Tuesday 20/7/2004 at 6:00

The Palestinian in the Israeli Photographic Picture

By Dr. Issam Nasser

Wednesday 21/7/2004 at 6:00

Searching for the Palestinian Image in Israeli Cinema - Colonial Address and Denying Legends for the Other

By Abed Ju'beh

Friday 23/7/2004 at 6:00

The Israeli Intellectual Approach

By Dr. Azmi Bishara

Saturday 24/7/2004 at 6:00

The Developments of the Palestinian Person's Character in the Israeli Cinema

By. George Khleefi

Sunday 24/7/2004 at 6:00

Program:

The First Film of Palestine (1911)

20 min, Silent, Directed by: Moshe Rosenberg

The film discusses the Zionism activities in Palestine. It was performed during the 10th Zionism Conference in Basel.

Tuesday 20/7/2004 at 5:00

The Life of the Jews in Palestine (1912)

50 min, English Subtitles

Tuesday 20/7/2004 at 5:00

This is the Land (1935)

50 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Baruch Agadati

News reports presenting the progressive level of Zionism history in Palestine.

Tuesday 20/7/2004 at 9:00

Operation Thunderbolt (1976)

2:04 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Menahem Golan

The film is based on the true facts of Antebe operation.

Wednesday 21/7/2004 at 7:00

Kherbet Khaza'a (1978)

English Subtitles, Directed by: Ram Loevy

The film is set in 1949, where a group of Israeli soldiers bear to evacuate the Arab from Khaza'a village.

Wednesday 21/7/2004 at 5:00

Khamaseen (1982)

90 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Danny Vazman

The Israeli land department is landscaping to set a settlement point on a piece of land in Galilee owned by Abu Yousef. Will the problem be solved if he sells the land to "Gadalia", the son of one of the Israeli settlements founders in Palestine?

Thursday 22/7/2004 at 5:00

Fellow Travelers (1983)

1:30 min, English, Subtitles Directed by: Gad Neemat

A political story, based on the ethical flounce in the Israeli society in the mid eighties.

Thursday 22/7/2004 at 7:00

Behind the Walls (1984)

1:43 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Ure Barbash

The relation between Israeli and Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli jail and how such a relation develops?

Thursday 22/7/2004 at 9:00

On a Narrow Bridge (1985)

1:40 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Nessem Dayan

Love affair gathers between a teacher from Ramallah and an Israeli lawyer during his military service in the city.

Friday 23/7/2004 at 7:00

The Smile of the Lamb (1986)

1:35 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Shimon Dotan

A relation gathers between an Israeli doctor who joins in the military administration team in the West Bank and a Palestinian man called "Helmi" - a strange man who narrates pop stories and being known as the village psycho.

Friday 23/7/2004 at 5:00

Final Cup (1991)

1:45 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Eran Riklis

An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by Palestinian groups during the Israeli invasion on Lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation to Italy to the world final soccer cup (Mondial). He and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the end a relationship is set up.

Friday 23/7/2004 at 9:00

Circus Palestine (1998)

1:23 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Eyal Halfon

When a broken down Eastern European circus is brought to the West Bank it does more than just entertain. Based on a true story.

Saturday 24/7/2004 at 7:00

Cock Fight (2000)

14 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Sigalit Lipshitz

On a hot summer day, Marciano and his Romanian worker are driving a truck full of chickens. The Palestinian checkpoint is declared closed just as they arrive. As Marciano argues to pass the checkpoint, he discovers that he knows the officer who formerly worked in his chicken coop.

Saturday 24/7/2004 at 7:00

Yellow Asphalt (2001)

1:27 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Danny Verete

Three films discussing issues related to the Bedouin society…

Saturday 24/7/2004 at 9:00

YA Trumpet in the Wadi (2001)

1:40 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Lena Chaplin

An impossible love story between two outsiders within the Israeli society; Alex, a new immigrant from Russia, and Huda, a young Arab woman from Haifa, fall in love with each other.

Saturday 24/7/2004 at 5:00

Kedma (2002)

1:40 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Amos Gitai

In 1948 survivors from the holocaust meet up with Palestinians. Who is the victim?

Sunday 25/7/2004 at 9:00

Closure (2002)

60 min, Arabic Subtitles, Directed by: Ram Loevy

The film represents the life of a million Palestinians living in Gaza strip.

Sunday 25/7/2004 at 5:00

Checkpoints (2003)

1:20 min, English Subtitles, Directed by: Yoan Shamer

The film's director travels between the various Israeli checkpoints in Jenin… Nablus… Gaza… Hebron… Ramallah.

Sunday 25/7/2004 at 7:00