1 DVD5 Disc All-zones (including NTSC)
Total duration : 123 min
Image format : color 16:9
Sound format : Dolby 0.2
Production year : 2012 momento!
Dialog : Arabic & Hebrew
Subtitles : English
ISBN 2-915683-15-8
With: Ariella Azoulay, Omar Barghouti, Meron Benvenisti,
Rozeen Bisharat, Eliaz Cohen, Leila Fersakh, Haim hanegbi,
Sandi Hilal, Ala Hlehel, Hassan Jabareen, Yael Lerer,
Gideon Levy, Roucham Marton, Hisham Naffa'a, Salman Natour,
Ilan Pappe, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin,
Nadim Ruhana, Yehuda Shenhav, Ayelet Tzviel Haddad,
Michel Warschwski, Khaled Ziadeh, Haneen Zouabi.
The deadlock in the Peace Process in Palestine/Israel and the deterioration of the situation since Oslo have provoked the revival/resurgence of an intellectual debate about the question of a 'one state solution' in Palestine. This in turn has fostered a tremendous academic, literary and artistic work dynamic drawing up the report of an already existing “common state” paradigm.
A common State in the sense of two national communities intermingling on a same land; one forming the majority, the other a minority; their respective citizenship is defined at best with vagueness, at worst with inequality.
In his new film Eyal Sivan discusses with prominent Palestinian and Israeli scholars activists and thinkers working on the idea of a common State.
The film stages a virtual conversation between Arab-Palestinians and Jewish-Israelis, all “children of the country” – politicians and settlers, lawyers and artists, old and young, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Israeli Jews, Palestinian Arabs in Israel and the occupied territories and in the diaspora.
With: Ariella Azoulay, Omar Barghouti, Meron Benvenisti, Rozeen Bisharat, Eliaz Cohen, Leila Fersakh, Haim hanegbi, Sandi Hilal, Ala Hlehel, Hassan Jabareen, Yael Lerer, Gideon Levy, Roucham Marton, Hisham Naffa'a, Salman Natour, Ilan Pappe, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Nadim Ruhana, Yehuda Shenhav, Ayelet Tzviel Haddad, Michel Warschwski, Khaled Ziadeh, Haneen Zouabi
Key words: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Colonization, Conflict resolution, Decolonization, Discrimination, Nakba, Nationalism, Occupation, One State solution, Palestinian Refugees, Partition, Two-State solution, Zionism
Key words: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Colonization, Conflict resolution, Decolonization, Discrimination, Nakba, Nationalism, Occupation, One State solution, Palestinian Refugees, Partition, Two-State solution, Zionism
Education interests: Education, Film and Media, Geography, History, Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Middle East Studies, Political Science, Visual Anthropology
Synopsis
Three quarters of a century have passed since the partition plan of Palestine was drawn up to constitute two separate states, one Jewish, the other Arab. Since then, an endless circus of peace talks, declarations, resolutions, missions, “road maps”, and relaunches of the “peace process” has trundled on, but without ever getting any closer to the professed aim of “two states existing peacefully and in security side by side”.
The deadlock in the Peace Process in Palestine/Israel and the deterioration of the situation since Oslo have provoked the revival/resurgence of an intellectual debate about the question of a 'one state solution' in Palestine. This in turn has fostered a tremendous academic, literary and artistic work dynamic drawing up the report of an already existing “common state” paradigm. A common State in the sense of two national communities intermingling on a same land; one forming the majority, the other a minority; their respective citizenship is defined at best with vagueness, at worst with inequality. In his new film Eyal Sivan discusses with prominent Palestinian and Israeli scholars activist and thinkers working on the idea of a common State. The film stages a virtual conversation between Arab-Palestinians and Jewish-Israelis, all “children of the country” – politicians and settlers, lawyers and artists, old and young, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Israeli Jews, Palestinian Arabs in Israel and the occupied territories and in the diaspora.
The screen is divided into two parts, an Israeli Jew on the one side and a Palestinian on the other, thus, bringing together those that fragmentation has brought apart. Thanks to the montage, the spectator witnesses a bilingual conversation – Arabic and Hebrew –, a virtual debate on the vision of the unity of the country and the future in a common state.
With:
Ariela Azoulay: Professor of visual culture and contemporary philosophy. Translator and Filmmaker.
Omar Barghouti: Author and founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
Meron Benbenisti: Political scientist. Former deputy mayor of Jerusalem (1971-1978). Founder of the West Bank Database Project.
Rozeen Bisharat: Filmmaker. Founding member of Palestinema in Jaffa.
Eliaz Cohen: Poet, literary editor. Founding member of Yerushalom for the dialogue between Palestinians and settlers and of Eretz Yoshveyha (Land of its inhabitants).
Layla Farsakh: Associate Professor of political science at the University of Massachussetts and Bir Zeit. Co-director of Jerusalem 2050 Project.
Haim Hanegbi: Journalist and writer. Founding member of Matzpen, first anti-colonial movement in Israel.
Sandi Hilal: Architect and professor. Founding member of the Decolonizing Architecture Institute (DAAR)
Ala Hlehel: Writer, scriptwriter and editorialist for numerous Arabic journals in Israel. Founder of the cultural magazine: www.qadita.net
Hassan Jabareen: Professor of Law, Founder of Adalah (The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel)
Yael Lerer: Editor and writer. Founder of al Andalus Editions in Tel Aviv. Ex-collaborator of Azmi Bishara
Gideon Levy: Journalist, Haaretz
Ruchama Marton: Psychiatrist. Founder and president of PHR (Physicians for Human Rights). Co-founder of numerous feminist and human rights organizations .
Hisham Nafaa: Editor and journalist at Al-Itihad – newspaper of the Israeli communist party. Editorialist at the Beirut based Al Akhbar.
Salman Natour: Writer and translator of Hebrew literature into Arabic. Member of the board of directors of Adalah (The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel).
Ilan Pappe: Figurehead of the Israeli new historians. Professor of contemporary history of the Middle East and director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter.
Nurit Peled Elhanan: Professor of education at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Sakharov Prize for Freedom of thought 2001.
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin: Historian and professor of Jewish history at Ben Gurion University. Director of the department of inter-disciplinary studies.
Nadim Rouhana: Professor of political science at the University of Boston. Founder-Director of Mada al Carmel, Arab Center for Research in Social Sciences (Haifa).
Yehuda Shenhav: Sociologist, professor at the University of Tel Aviv. Editor of Organization Studies and editor in chief of the Israeli magazine Theory and Criticism in Context. Co-founder of Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition.
Ayelet Tzvieli: Teacher and masters' student at Tel Aviv University. Member of Eretz Yohveyha (Land of its inhabitants).
Michel Warchawski: Journalist, essayist. Former militant of the Socialist Organization in Israel (Matzpen). Co-founder of the Alternative Information Center (AIC).
Khaled Ziada: Co-founder and co-director of the London Palestine Film Festival. Co-founder of the Palestine Society and of the One-State group at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Haneen Zoabi: Member of Knesset representing Balad (National Democratic Assembly), an Israeli Arab political party in Israel.
Awards & Film Festivals selections
Juliano mer Khamis Prize for the best documentary, Cinema South film festival sheroot,
Thessaloniki 14th international film festival, 'Vision du Reel' int. Documentary film festival Nyon
DVD Features
1 DVD9 Disc All-zones (including NTSC)
Total duration : 123 min
Image format : color 16:9
Sound format : Dolby 0.2
Production year : 2012 momento!
Dialog : Arabic & Hebrew
Subtitles : English
ISBN 2-915683-15-8
Filmmaker’s biography
Eyal Sivan, is a documentary filmmaker and theoretician based in Paris
Born in 1964 in Haifa, Israel and grew up in Jerusalem.
After exercising as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv, he leaves Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. Since he is sharing is time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, Sivan directed more than 10 world-wide awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan's films are regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world. He publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation, etc. He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris based documentary films production company momento! and the film distribution agency Scalpel. He is the founder and Chief Editor of South Cinema Notebooks - a journal of cinema and political critic edited by the Sapir academic college in Israel where he lectures regularly. In the last years Sivan was Reader (associate professor) in media production at the school of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI), at the University of East London (UEL) were he was co-leading the MA program in Film, video and new media.
He is teaching at the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. He is a member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique.
Eyal Sivan, is a documentary filmmaker and theoretician based in Paris
Born in 1964 in Haifa Israel and grow up in Jerusalem.
After exercising as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv, he leaves Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. Since he is sharing is time between Europe and Israel.
Known for his controversial films, Sivan directed more than 10 worldwide awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan's films are regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world.
He publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation, etc.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris based documentary films production company momento! and the film distribution agency Scalpel. He is the founder and Chief Editor of South Cinema Notebooks - a journal of cinema and political critic edited by the Sapir academic college in Israel where he lectures regularly.
In the last years Sivan was Reader (associate professor) in media production at the school of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI), at the University of East London (UEL) were he was co-leading the MA program in Film, video and new media. He his teaching at the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. He is member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique.
"Eyal Sivan continues his relentless and disturbing work, from film to film, investigating thre true nature of his native country. Any study of memory, of history, of values, of the myths of Israel confronted with reality, depends, of course, and perhaps above all, for Eyal Sivan on getting to know your opponent. In this case, the enemy / partner over the last 50 years, the palestinian people."
- Le Nouvel Observateur
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