Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Jackie Salloum | 94 minutes

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Slingshot hip hop

Jackie Salloum 2008 docu 94 min.

2008, DVD, 94 min.Arabic, English & Hebrew. Subtitles available in English,
Arabic, French. Official Selection at Sundance, Best Director at Beirut
International Film Festival, Audience Award at Films de Femmes Festival,
and Awarded at the Festival des Libertes. "Profoundly uplifting... Its a
refreshing take on the conflict" - Now Toronto. "The Culture of Hip Hop and
Rap is at its most powerful and yet its most tender in Slingshot Hip Hop" -
Chuck D, Public Enemy. Slingshot Hip Hop weaves together the stories of
young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank, and inside Israel as they
discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmont divisions imposted by
occupation and poverty. Follow DAM - the first ever Palestinian Hip Hop
group from their early years to their world wide success. Through DAM we
meet Mahmoud Shalabi, an irreverent rapper from Akka, along with R&B singer
Abeer and rap duo Arapeyat, rising female artists determinded to express
themselves. And trapped within Gaza the rap group PR have begun emulating
DAM to protest their own terrible conditions.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/MYCe17MEkDQ

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