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The King's Garden / Sabeel / Sing Your Song / The Last Passenger / Bahiya & Mahm
The King's Garden
Phoebe Fronista
Short Documentary | USA | 2011 | 25 min.
The King's Garden is a documentary short about the uneasy relationship between archaeology, religion and nationalism in Israel.
In the small East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan - believed to be the initial site of the four-thousand-year-old city - a controversy is raging. 22 Palestinian homes are slated to be razed to make way for the expansion of the City of David archaeological park and tourism center. At the same time, more and more Jewish-Israeli settlers are moving into the neighborhood. Tension between the two factions has gotten uglier and uglier - and, in September of 2010, blood was shed.
Sabeel
Khalid Al Mahmood
Short Film | United Arab Emirates | 2010 | 20 min.
On a small farm deep in the mountains lives two young brothers and their grandmother. The boys spend their mornings farming vegetables, and then head to a road where they sit and wait to sell to travelers passing by. With the little money they make, they buy medicine and tend to their sick grandmother. Living humbly in remote isolation, the road will determine their destiny.
Sing Your Song
Omar Falah
Short Documentary | Iraq | 2011 | 0 min.
Follows musicians in Nasiriyah and the way that the spirit of Art seeks an outlet despite the changes after 2003 as extremist religious groups and city officials banned music.
(Bahiya& Mahmoud)
Zaid Abu Hamdan
Short Film | Lebanon | 2010 | 14 min.
9:30am marks the beginning of a long term daily routine and yet another unbearable day in the life of Mahmoud and Bahiya. A couple in their later years living alone together, they constantly bicker and endure a seemingly loveless and tough marriage. They simply can't stand each other. It's not until one day Mahmoud awakes to a quiet peaceful morning and the terrifying realization that Bahiya disappeared!
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LocationEmbarcadero Cinema (View)
One Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111
United States
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