Promises

Name: Promises
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2001-01-30
Duration: 106 min
Cast: Moishe Bar Am, B.Z. Goldberg, Sanabel Hassan

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1/30/2001

Runtime

106 mins

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Documentary

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Documentarians Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg traveled to Israel to interview Palestinian and Israeli kids ages 11 to 13, assembling their views on living in a society afflicted with violence, separatism and religious and political extremism. This 2002 Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary culminates in an astonishing day in which two Israeli children meet Palestinian youngsters at a refugee camp.

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English

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A sobering yet quietly moving documentary that lets children from opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict speak their own truths, revealing both the weight of inherited prejudices and unexpected moments of common ground.