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Promises, 2001
English, Arabic, Hebrew
USA
Profile of Promises
The mood of Promises is thought provoking, contemplative, and sincere. The plot centers around wartime life, politics, and human nature. It is a documentary and drama movie. In approach, Promises is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a village. Promises is set in Israel. It happens in contemporary times.
Summary of Promises
Between 1995 and 2000 Justine Schapiro and B.Z. Goldberg traveled to Israel to work on a project about the relationship between children and conflict. They interviewed Palestinian and Israeli kids from ages nine to 13 to uncover their thoughts on living in a culture afflicted with violence, separatism, and religious and political extremism. Yarko and Daniel are secular Israeli twins who are interested in sports and fearful of riding the bus because of terrorist bombings. Mahmoud is a supporter of Hamas and lives in the Muslim Quarter in the Old City. Shlomo is an ultraorthodox Jewish boy who studies the Torah to be a Rabbi one day. Sanabel is a Palestinian refugee whose father is a journalist who's been held in an Israeli prison for two years without trial. Faraj is a refugee living in the Deheishe refugee camp who saw his five-year-old friend killed by an Israeli soldier. Moishe is a right wing Jewish settler whose friend was killed by Palestinian terrorists. Promises is a moving, balanced portrait of the difficulties these children face living in a country plagued by conflict. The movie culminates in an astonishing day when Yarko and Daniel travel to the Deheishe refugee camp to meet the Palestinian children.
Details
| Language: | English, Arabic, Hebrew |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 18 October 2001 |
| Runtime: | 106 min |
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Mick LaSalle
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Keith Phipps
