Title: The Gatekeepers Director: Dror Moreh An innovative, riveting and thought-provoking overview of the brutal history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, director Dror Moreh’s “The Gatekeepers,” along with the unfortunately overlooked “Tears of Gaza,” makes a strong and vigorous case for a re-examination of the United States’ relationship with Israel, and an adjustment that reflects the reality of them as a powerful ally but not a 51st state. The Shin Bet is Israel’s secret service, charged with overseeing the nation’s war on terror, and in particular its military prosecution against Palestinian resistance and incursions. For the first time ever, six ex-heads of the agency — all its living former chiefs — agreed to [ Read More ]
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- 1/30/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Title: Tears of Gaza Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg Dated by the criterion of certain cinephiles (it premiered at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival) but still dispiritingly topical, director Vibeke Løkkeberg’s “Tears of Gaza,” a visceral documentary look at the 2008-09 Israeli bombardment of Gaza launched in retaliation for Hamas bombings of southern Israeli cities, is a shattering anti-war that pierces one’s heart. A tough watch even for those who believe they’ve seen it all, this subjective offering is a grim portrait of human atrocity and a cinematic evocation of the old protest song query: “War, what is it good for?” Løkkeberg and cinematographers Yosuf Abu Shreah, Saed Al Sabaa and Marie Kristiansen — apparently having smuggled [ Read More ]...
- 9/20/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Suffer the Children: Causalities of War on Display in Norwegian Doc
Norwegian actress and director Vibeke Løkkeberg’s latest film, Tears of Gaza, is a visceral documentary depicting footage of the Israeli army bombing Gaza at the end of 2008 into early 2009. Perhaps more chilling and definitely more visceral than any fictional horror you’re apt to see, the salvaged firsthand footage of the bombings focuses on the women, children, and civilians slaughtered and maimed.
We loosely follow three young children, one young boy and two young girls, each having lost most or all of their family members in the bombings, witnessing first hand the slaughter of their loved ones. Losing track of the children, we get montages of deployed bombs, eradicated, burning buildings, charred bodies of kids dragged out of rubble like ragdolls. There’s absolute pandemonium with women and children screaming in the streets, lives wiped out before our eyes between blinks.
Norwegian actress and director Vibeke Løkkeberg’s latest film, Tears of Gaza, is a visceral documentary depicting footage of the Israeli army bombing Gaza at the end of 2008 into early 2009. Perhaps more chilling and definitely more visceral than any fictional horror you’re apt to see, the salvaged firsthand footage of the bombings focuses on the women, children, and civilians slaughtered and maimed.
We loosely follow three young children, one young boy and two young girls, each having lost most or all of their family members in the bombings, witnessing first hand the slaughter of their loved ones. Losing track of the children, we get montages of deployed bombs, eradicated, burning buildings, charred bodies of kids dragged out of rubble like ragdolls. There’s absolute pandemonium with women and children screaming in the streets, lives wiped out before our eyes between blinks.
- 9/19/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Title: Tears Of Gaza Nero Media Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg Screenwriter: Vibeke Løkkerberg Cast: Amira, Razmia, Yahya, and the people of Gaza Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 8/14/12 Opens: September 19, 2012 Granted: a documentarian has no obligation to be unbiased, to present both sides of an issue—as fans of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock and cheer. However, Norwegians Vibeke Løkkeberg, who wrote the script for “Tears of Gaza” and Terje Kristiansen who produced it, make no attempt whatever to show what provoked a series of attacks by Israelis against an area that is so woebegone that even Egypt had written off its former possession after Egypt’s conquest in the 1967 [ Read More ]...
- 8/15/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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