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News from House / News from Home

Amos Gitai

In News from House / News from Home, renowned filmmaker Amos Gitai uncovers the multilayered human history of one building in West Jerusalem, which for decades was a microcosm of a city in conflict.

DIRECTOR
Amos Gitai
YEAR
2006
COUNTRY
Israel / France / Belgium
RUNTIME
97 minutes
LANGUAGE
English, Arabic, Hebrew, and French with English subtitles
FORMAT
DCP

A house in West Jerusalem was for decades a microcosm of a city in conflict: abandoned by its Palestinian owner in the 1948 war; then requisitioned by the Israeli government as vacant; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; and, finally, purchased by a university professor who undertook its transformation into a three-story house in 1980. While its inhabitants have now dispersed and the common space has disintegrated, the structure remains both an emotional and a physical center at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. Here, renowned filmmaker Amos Gitai uncovers the multilayered human history of this remarkable place.

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