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Making a movie about people under occupation when the creator is the occupier is irresponsible. They are tainted with orientalism and evade responsibility. "The same is true for Hollywood movies about the Iraq war. “I am aware that I come from a place that has barely been shown in cinematic works, maybe only in ' The Syrian Bride.' I don’t find that a good film because it includes all the familiar stereotypes and doesn’t truly delve into the occupation’s essence and the human experience of Syrians living in the Golan," he says. And suddenly you flood viewers with the alienation and reveal the pain it entails through film. It’s a silenced feeling that has no place in Israel’s national conversation. Proto-Canaanite inscription found in Israel has experts squabbling over its meaningĪdnan’s sense of helplessness is familiar to me as a member of the Golan Druze minority. Some in East Jerusalem regret neglecting Hebrew, ‘language of the occupier’ After making two student films – “Between Two Deaths” in 2015 and “Voicemail” in 2017 – he left school to study independently.Īrabrew: Can new typeface create Arab-Jewish equality in Israel?Ĭan an alphabet merging Hebrew and Arabic promote coexistence? So, he turned to film studies at the Camera Obscura School of the Arts. At 18, he began studying accounting at Tel Aviv University, but quickly realized it wasn’t what he wanted. He says a career as a filmmaker was not originally on the agenda. After graduation, they returned to the Golan. Adnan is helpless in the face of his reality and deliberates: Should he stay or should he flee?įakher Eldin, 30, was born in Kiev, to parents from Majdal Shams who were studying medicine in the former USSR. Explosions and smoke columns emanate from the civil war across the border in Syria. He spends most of his time in the family apple orchard, mired in hopelessness and fear that he’ll never get to feel true freedom. His relationship with his father (Mohammed Bakhri) is tense. The protagonist, Adnan (Ashraf Barhom), has left medical school in Russia and returned to his Golan village. The sculpture, 13 meters long and five meters tall. Who cares if the bread tastes good or not?” It’s like a soldier going into Auschwitz, handing out bread and asking, ‘Is the bread tasty?’ The people are imprisoned and don’t know what awaits them. “On the surface life is good under Israeli occupation,” he says. It was screened at the Venice Film Festival, chosen to represent Palestine at the Academy Awards (but didn’t make the select nominee list) and won best picture at the Cairo International Film Festival.
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This complexity is one of the reasons why “The Stranger” drew much attention late last year.
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Even those familiar with the reality of the Golan Druze community, as I am, will find it hard at times to process the full complex picture of life under occupation depicted by the director. 'I realized that I had no idea what was written in Arabic.' Rami Shllush The font's designer Liron Lavi Turkenich. The question, of course, is how? We haven’t received enough tools to reexamine the occupation and to establish a Syrian national identity.” The responsibility is now on us to maintain our narrative and our identity. We weren’t part of them, but they are a part of our people’s history.
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“How will a child born in the year 2000, who hasn’t experienced the historical events of the occupation, know how to define their identity and where they truly belong? You can’t delude the younger generation that there’s no occupation and that all is well. “We too have a responsibility to redefine our narrative as a Syrian people under occupation,” says Fakher Eldi in a video interview from his home in Hamburg. But it is first and foremost intended for his fellow Druze living there, he says. Meanwhile, Israeli control of the West Bank monopolizes the term “occupation.” His film, Fakher Eldin says, seeks to turn attention toward the problem of occupation in the Golan, which is barely discussed in international forums. A bloody civil war has been raging for a decade a few kilometers away, in the Syrian Golan. “This is the forgotten occupation,” says Ameer Fakher Eldin, the director and screenwriter of the film, “The Stranger.” A new work by a Druze filmmaker forces viewers to confront the reality of Israeli occupation in the Golan Heights.