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APRIL
20-28, 2002

Promises

Promises offers a surprisingly fresh window onto the Middle East conflict when filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg returns to his hometown of Jerusalem to see what seven children - both Palestinian and Israeli - think about war, peace and just growing up. Each child provides a dramatic, touching and sometimes hilarious insight into the Middle East conflict and into the experience of growing up in the charged and complex city of Jerusalem. Though they live only 20 minutes apart, these children exist in completely separate worlds; the physical, historical and emotional obstacles between them run deep. PROMISES explores this legacy of distrust and bitterness, but signs of hope emerge when some of the Palestinian and Israeli children dare to cross the checkpoints to meet one another. Their connection—captured so emotionally on camera—doesn’t last; it's doomed by the inherent fickleness of youth but, more pointedly, by the political reality of checkpoints and propaganda.  2002 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary.

Directors: Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg, & Carlos Bolado
United States/Israel/PA 2001
108 minutes
English, Hebrew, & Arabic w/ subtitles

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