Origin: Ireland | Documentary | Director: Jill Beardsworth | 82 minutes

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Apples of the Golan

Directors: Jill Beardsworth and Keith Walsh - documentary - 2012 - 82 min.
APPLES OF THE GOLAN tells the epic story of Majdal Shams, one of five
remaining Arab villages in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Before the
occupation there were 139 such villages, which have now mostly been
destroyed. Cut off from their homeland since the events of the Six Day War,
the villagers fight to maintain their national identity amid political
uncertainty, border disputes and the Syrian Civil War. They are all
connected to, and owe their existence to, the apples which grow all around
the village. In many ways, as their resistance to occupation is generally
peaceful, the apples are their bombs.
Irish film-makers Keith Walsh and Jill Beardsworth spent five years among
the people of the village and have woven together, from the interlocking
lives of the apple growers, rappers, salsa dancers, holy men, traitors, and
freedom fighters that make up this unique community, a film that is a
complex portrait of a place, a people, and the apple trees that root them
to land. APPLES OF THE GOLAN covers the four year period up until the
Syrian conflict begins to turn into civil war, as the effects are being
felt in the Golan Heights. It is a portrait of a village's survival but
also documents the beginning of its journey into the unknown.

Trailer:
https://youtu.be/FCM6wzq8b0s
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/apples-of-the-golan/id906707504

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