Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Étienne Beurier - Thomas Ellis - Constantin Simon | 93 minutes

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Palestines

Étienne Beurier - Thomas Ellis - Constantin Simon 2007 docu 93 min.

Directed by three young French filmmakers, Palestines is an intersecting
triptych portrait of the daily lives of three Palestinians in the West
Bank. Ahmad, born in the Fara'a refugee camp, paints landscapes on walls
personally, he's never seen a boat, but he thinks the kids at the school
he's painting should have the chance to see his rendering of one, if only
to dream. Raed is a traffic policeman in the busy centre of Ramallah after
accidentally injuring an elderly pedestrian with his hand gestures, he's
developed a safer, more compact series of rapid dancelike movements to
control Palestine's traffic flow. Nidal, a shopkeeper in Hebron, continues
to open his shop even though customers are rare, and the settlers in the
city harass him daily. Three Palestinians who take their daily jobs into
extraordinary places in the face of challenging situations these warm
portraits of ordinary Palestinians invite the viewer into the remarkable
day to day of Palestine, 2007.