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Directed by: Mai Masri
Length: 56 minutes
Award-winning
Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri's most recent work traces the
delicate
friendship that evolves between two Palestinian girls: Mona, a
resident of the economically marginalized Beirut refugee camp and
Manar, an occupant of Bethlehem's Al-Dheisha camp under Israeli
control. The two girls begin and continue their relationship through
letters until they are finally given the opportunity to meet at the
border during the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon. When the
intifada suddenly erupts around them, both girls face heart-breaking
changes in their lives.
As in Masri's earlier
films, Children of Shatila (1998) and Children of Fire (1990),
Frontiers of Dreams and Fears focuses on the difficult plight of
Palestinian children while exhibiting an optimism that defies their
unbearable circumstances.
Type:
Documentary
Director:
Mai Masri
Year:
2001
Time:
56
minutes
Language:
In
Arabic with English subtitles
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