Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Documentary > Arna's Children
Arna's Children is a film of genre Documentary directed by Danniel Danniel

Arna's Children (2006)

Arna's Children
If you like this film, let us know!
Rating79% 3.996243.996243.996243.996243.99624

Arna's Children is a 2004 Dutch-Israeli documentary film directed by Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel about a children's theater group in Jenin in the Palestinian territories established by Arna Mer-Khamis, the director's mother, an Israeli Jewish political and human rights activist.

The film portrays the lives of Arna Mer-Khamis and the children members of the theater including Ala el-Sabagr, Zakaria Zubeidi, Daud Zubeidi, Majdi Shadi, Haifa Esteti, Nidal Swetti, Yussef Swetti, Mahmoud Kaneri, Khairia Fakhri and Ashraf Abu-Alheji.

The film won "Best Documentary Feature" in the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.

Three of the theater children died in various operations or while resisting the Israeli army, namely Ala, Nidal, and Ashraf. Yussef committed a suicide attack in Hadera in 2001, murdering four civilians. Two other children, Daud and Zakaria were imprisoned.

The director of the film Juliano Mer Khamis was assassinated in Jenin on 4 April 2011 by masked militants.

Synopsis

Le documentaire raconte l’histoire de quelques jeunes combattants palestiniens de Jénine, dont certains ont été tués par les forces israéliennes. Enfants, ces jeunes faisaient partie d'une troupe théâtrale fondée par Arna Mer-Khamis, la mère du coréalisateur Juliano Mer Khamis.

Trailer of Arna's Children

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Arna's Children

There are 0 films with the same director, 8962 with the same cinematographic genres, 13323 films with the same themes (including 55 films with the same 10 themes than Arna's Children), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Arna's Children, you will probably like those similar films :
The Sons of Eilaboun
The Sons of Eilaboun (2007)
, 24minutes
Directed by Hisham Zreiq
Origin Israel
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Rating68% 3.436763.436763.436763.436763.43676
The film starts with Melia Zreiq, an old woman from Eilaboun, saying: "I hope God will bring peace to this land, and let the peoples live together - a good life. I hope there will be peace". Historian Ilan Pappe talks about Plan Dalet, a plan that David Ben-Gurion and the Haganah leaders in Palestine worked out during autumn 1947 to spring 1948. Pappe discusses the details of the plan, and how was it carried out. On October 30, 1948, the Israeli army entered Eilaboun at approximately 5 AM. They then forced the villagers together in the main square of the village. They chose seventeen young men. Five of them were taken as human shield, and the rest of the twelve were killed, each in a different location. This all happened after the expulsion of the rest of the village to Lebanon, where they became refugees after a five days forced march to Lebanon. After a United Nations peace keeper observed and reported Israel was forced to allow the people back.
Rachel
Rachel (2009)
, 1h40
Directed by Simone Bitton
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Rating74% 3.7231953.7231953.7231953.7231953.723195
Le 16 mars 2003, au sud de la bande de Gaza, Rachel Corrie, jeune Américaine pacifiste bénévole au sein de l'International Solidarity Movement, meurt écrasée par un bulldozer de l'armée israélienne alors qu'elle tentait de s'opposer à la destruction de maisons palestiniennes. Le documentaire est conçu comme une enquête, à l'aide d'entretiens télévisés, d'images militaires, de témoignages de soldats et de personnes présentes sur les lieux du drame.