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Blanche's Homeland (Watan
Blanche) dir Maryse Gargour, 28', BETA SP,
colour
French, English, Arabic w/Subtitles English. Documentary (France,
2001). This intimate film, evocative and poetic, follows the steps
of an elderly woman in the years between 1988 and 2001. Blanche was
born in Jaffa, Palestine, where her parents were landowners, and was
exiled in the 1948 war. Her life became a series of exiles, from
Jaffa to Beirut to Europe and the U.S. Reflecting on the history she
has lived, Blanche rebels against the amnesia of the world
concerning the fate of the Palestinians, and through dialogues
between her and the younger generations of exiled Palestinians,
bears witness to the tenacity and permanence of their identity.
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