70 min
Julia Bacha
Documentary
2009 - Palestine / Israel / USA
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Featuring: Iltezam Morrar, Ahmed Awwad, Doron Spielman, Kobi Snitz, Yasmine Levy, Ayed Morrar
Budrus is an award-winning documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Wall. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territory that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose non-violence to confront a threat.
Panorama Audience Award Second Prize Berlin International Film Festival (2010); Special Jury Mention Tribeca Film Festival (2010); Audience Award San Francisco International Film Festival (2010)
Screened with End of September & Ken,Tov,Beseder