Hatred and Hope - Children in the Middle East Conflict
| Movie | |
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| German title | Hatred and Hope - Children in the Middle East Conflict |
| Original title | Promises |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | Arabic , Hebrew , English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 106 minutes |
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| Director |
BZ Goldberg , Justine Shapiro , Carlos Bolado |
| production | BZ Goldberg, Justine Shapiro |
| music | Wim Mertens |
| camera | Yoram Millo, Ilan Buchbinder |
| cut | Carlos Bolado |
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Hatred and Hope - Children in the Middle East Conflict (Original title: Promises ) is a documentary from 2001 . Seven children from the Palestinian neighborhoods , in the West Bank and the Israeli neighborhoods in Jerusalem are the protagonists who express their view of the Israel-Palestine conflict .
Hatred and Hope was recorded between 1997 and 2000 and produced in cooperation with Independent Television Service and funded with the help of Corporation for Public Broadcasting .
Over a period of three years, the film follows the Israeli- American director and producer of the film, BZ Goldberg , to meet seven children.
A few years later, the life situations of the children were taken up again in the film Promises: Four Years On .
The children
- Daniel Solan and Yarko Solan: Israeli boys from West Jerusalem; Grandsons of Holocaust survivors
- Shlomo Green: Jewish Israelite from Jerusalem, son of an American rabbi
- Moishe Bar Am: in Beit-El, living in the West Bank
- Faraj Adnan Hassan Husein: Palestinian boy from the Deheishe refugee camp, West Bank. Son of Palestinian refugees
- Mahmoud Mazan Mahmud Izhiman: from the Palestinian residential area, from East Jerusalem; Son of Muslim merchants from the Old City of Jerusalem
- Sanabel Hassan: Palestinian girl from the Deheishe refugee camp; Daughter of a prisoner and sister of a former prisoner.
Awards
- 2001: Emmy Award, Best Background Analysis
- 2001: Emmy Award, Best Documentary
- 2001: Hamptons International Film Festival Best Documentary
- 2001: Jerusalem Film Festival Special Festival Award
- 2001: Locarno International Film Festival Special Ecumenical Jury Prize
- 2001: Munich Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award
- 2001: Paris International Film Festival (Rencontres) Audience Award-Best Film
- 2001: Rotterdam International Film Festival Audience Award, Best Film
- 2001: San Francisco International Film Festival Audience Award, Best Documentary Grand Prize, Best Documentary Golden Gate Award, Documentary Film
- 2001: São Paulo International Film Festival Best Documentary Audience Award
- 2001: Valladolid International Film Festival Best Documentary
- 2001: Vancouver International Film Festival Audience Award, Diversity in Spirit Award
- 2002: The Michael Landon Award for Community Service to Youth Twenty-Third Annual Young Artist Awards
- 2002: The NBR Freedom of Expression Citation National Board of Review
Nominations
- 2002: Best Documentary (Long Form) , Academy Awards
- 2002: Best Documentary, IFP Spirit Awards
- 2002: Truer than Fiction Award, IFP Spirit Awards
Web links
- Hatred and hope - Children in the Middle East conflict in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Promises Film Project (English)
- Promises Films, An Independent Documentary Filmmaking Company (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ NY Times: Promises . In: NY Times . Retrieved November 23, 2008.