Origin: France | Israel | Palestine | Poland | Documentary | Director: Tamara Erde | 72 minutes

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This is my land
Tamara Erde docu 94 min. Poland/Palestine/France/Israel 2016
How do the Palestinian and Israeli (Arab and Jewish) education systems
teach the history of their nations? The film follows several Israeli and
Palestinian teachers over one academic year. Through observing their
exchanges and confrontations with students, debates with the ministries
curriculum and its restrictions, the viewers obtain an intimate glimpse
into the profound and long lasting effect that the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict transmits onto the next generation.

Filmmaker Tamara Erde visits different schools in Israel and Palestine and
examines how the history of the region is being rewritten there according
to political agendas. A compelling view of the propaganda war between the
two countries and the shocking influence it has on their youths. With
Critics' Talk on Sun 25-1 in the lobby.

Documentary-maker Tamara Erde served in the Israeli army and witnessed the
second Intifada in 2002. This sowed the seeds of her film about how history
is taught in Israel, in particular the representation of the conflict
between Israel and Palestine. The Ministry of Education prohibited her from
filming at state schools, so she filmed at independent schools instead -
some of which have their own history books.
Erde spent a year filming in an observational style at eight schools, both
in Israel and in the occupied territories. She visited a Talmudic school
and a school in the Palestinian refugee camp at Nablus. Everywhere,
teachers and their young pupils saw the recent history of the Middle East
through ideologically tinted spectacles. The vast majority of the Israeli
history books devote hardly any or no attention at all to the Palestinians,
and Palestinian education is often characterised by the urge for freedom
and human rights. With Critics' Talk on Sun 25-1 in the lobby.

Trailers:
http://www.tamaraerde.com/films/this-is-my-land/
https://vimeo.com/82362184
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxvxcwxaiLA