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[Episode 93]

Seven years ago, after the invasion of the Israeli army into the refugee camp in Jenin, West Bank, Mohammad Bakri shot his film, Jenin Jenin, a documentary about the  Palestinians of Jenin. As we all know the camp is isolated and getting to know what happens inside of it is hard: thanks to this visual testimony international attention has been drawn to this story,  otherwise difficultly heard by the international media.Bakri was censored by the Israeli censorship board for two years and, in the last seven years,he  has spent a great deal of time and money defending himself and the movie.  After winning the legal suits, soldiers decided to take the case to the Supreme Court. Recently, the State of Israel has decided to join the soldiers in their civil suit against Bakri.”They said that the film is a palestinian propaganda, just one failed point of view, but I told them that I described just the Jenin residents’story” said us the director.

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[Episode 92]

FILM MIDDLE EAST NOW is an international film and documentary event on the culture and society of Middle Eastern countries. This first edition of the event will take place in Florence from 3 to 7 February 2010.
5 days of screenings for a local and international audience, showing the most recent works of young but well-known international award-winning directors from Iran, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Central Asia.
In this show, Lara Chiari talks about the organization of the festival followed by Palestinian director Ahmad Habash presentation of his latest work named Fatenah. Fatenah is the first Palestinian Animation film and will be shown fot the first time at this film festival in Florence.

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[Episode 91]

While Israel has not launched an independent committee to investigate war crimes perpetreted in Gaza yet the Israeli parliament currently happened to decide  to launch a committee to investigate foreign funding of Israeli civil society organizations. Among these organizations are the Coalition of Women for Peace.
” The Coalition is proud to be mentioned among the Israeli organizations that struggle against the war crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza. While these constant assaults on Palestinian and Israeli human rights defenders are troubling, we feel that they also represent the growing fear among Israeli officials, who recognize the threat posed by international pressure and by the Palestinian nonviolent struggle” said our guest Yoana Gonen, CWP International Relations Coordinator. “It is clear that international pressure is currently one of the greatest threats to the continuation of the Israeli occupation. Therefore, we call on our international allies to increase this pressure – despite the growing political persecution – so that together we will bring an end to the occupation and justice to all inhabitants of this region”.

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