"Promises" shows the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through children's eyes
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"PROMISES follows the journey of one of the filmmakers, Israeli-American B.Z. Goldberg. B.Z. travels to a Palestinian refugee camp and to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and to the more familiar neighborhoods of Jerusalem where he meets seven Palestinian and Israeli children.
Though the children live only 20 minutes apart, they exist in completely separate worlds; the physical, historical and emotional obstacles between them run deep.
PROMISES explores the nature of these boundaries and tells the story of a few children who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors. Rather than focusing on political events, the seven children featured in PROMISES offer a refreshing, human and sometimes humorous portrait of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
PROMISES, a film by Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg and co-director and editor Carlos Bolado, was shot between 1995-2000."
http://www.promisesproject.org
Though the children live only 20 minutes apart, they exist in completely separate worlds; the physical, historical and emotional obstacles between them run deep.
PROMISES explores the nature of these boundaries and tells the story of a few children who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors. Rather than focusing on political events, the seven children featured in PROMISES offer a refreshing, human and sometimes humorous portrait of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
PROMISES, a film by Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg and co-director and editor Carlos Bolado, was shot between 1995-2000."
http://www.promisesproject.org
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"not politicians! i want the CHILDREN to meet!"
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- pressrecord
- 2 months ago
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This is inspiring!
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it is interesting but you are not even starting to make not even 1 percent of difference on how the Jews and Arabs will treat each other differently. They both believe there religion is superior to the other, they also believe that the other took their land and it it rightfully theres. there will never be peace with these religions. i hate to say it is a lossed cause, i truly do. they all see it as it like this-we will never forget and forgive- that is what is being teached to there children to dislike the other religion and then that dislike turns in to hate.
i have no religion and i don't believe in religion because of things like this, religion coses argument and hate towards the opposite. i do believe in god and to do what is right because it is right.
god gave us a conshints for a reason, something that should never to be ignored.
People will always try to justify there actions by saying it was in gods name, when god meant for there never to be a war in the first place. -
I saw this movie when I was around eight or nine,and most likely without it I would not be as divulged and adamantly attached to this conflict. The film conveys the perpetuation of humanity with emotional grandeur and blatant realism. I recommend this film to anyone, especially the bigoted politicians on both sides of the conflict.
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take a look to http://current.com/items/88938117_have_fun
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