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| Global Peace Film Festival presents "Coffee Shorts Program" |
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| Start Date: | 9/23/2011 | Start Time: | 8:00 PM |
| End Date: | 9/23/2011 | |
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Event Description
Audition
Director: Eti Tsicko, 15 min.
A female director calls an Arab actor for an audition. What are the boundaries of an audition? Where does "reality" start and the "movie" end?
The Clock and the Man
Director: Gazi Abu Baker, 11 min.
A young clerk is awoken each morning before his alarm clock goes off by knocks on his door. He discovers an elderly man who disappears as soon as the door opens. The reasons for the old man’s strange deed are revealed.
A Cup of Coffee from Palestine
Director: Murad Nassar, 11 min.
In Al-Amari Refugee camp near Ramallah, an old man is sitting in a coffee shop, telling his story. Through the film we see the Palestinians, prisoners of their past and blocked by their future.
Eva is Leaving
Director: Aya Somech, 16 min.
Eldad, the owner of “Eldad’s Coffee Shop,” is becoming a religious man. He tries to render his coffee shop kosher, while his wife and employee insist on keeping their old habits.
Sense of Morning
Director: Maysaloun Hamoud, 9 min.
On the last night of the siege of Beirut during the war of 1982, a young Palestinian poet strives to reach the kitchen to observe his everyday routine of coffee and cigarette, despite the plight of the war going on around him.
Tasnin
Director: Elite Zexer, 11 min.
Tasnin, an opinionated 10-year-old, lives with her mother and siblings in a neglected Bedouin village in the Negev. A surprise visit from her father forces her to confront the conservative norms of the family tribe and the fact that she is no longer daddy’s little girl.
A Trip to Jaffa
Director: Eitan Sarid, 14 min.
Two illegal Palestinian workers find themselves in Tel Aviv and get carried away in a journey into the depths of the city’s urban jungle. At dawn, they have to go back to being the foreign workers who are building modern Tel Aviv, but this has been a night they will never forget.
Wajeh
Director: Murad Nassar, 16 min.
The many checkpoints, which divide the West Bank to separate areas and block the free movement of the Palestinians within the land, pose a great problem on everyday life. In this film, Wajeh, a coffee maker, sells coffee in Qalandia checkpoint, near Ramallah, and that makes him a central figure, very well known, and having an important role on the lives of thousands of people who cross the checkpoint on a daily basis.
To learn more about the Global Peace Film Festival, visit peacefilmfest.org. |
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Campus Department
Global Peace Film Festival |
Event is open to the public
Yes |
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