Amy Stone
At this year’s festival, remorse and regret seep from the screen.
Back to the Movies – A Film Festival’s Cautionary Tales
Tag: Other Israel Film Festival
“The Occupation is a Worse Virus,” and More from The Other Israel Film Festival
Amy Stone
Carole Zabar’s founding vision was a film festival showing the “Other Israel” – minorities, women, Palestinians not part of the Zionist dream or Israel propaganda.
Women’s Narratives on Film Create Something Far from a Feel-Good Zionist Experience
Amy Stone
Over the eight days of the Other Israel Film Festival, we kept seeing multiple generations of women using whatever tactics work to push for change.
The Controversial Centerpiece of the Other Israel Film Festival
Chanel Dubofsky
Tsemel never wins. As in, she tells the camera, her clients always end up serving time. The point of continuing is to challenge the Israeli court system, which has been corrupted by the Occupation. “Why appeal if you don’t believe in the courts?,” Tsemel is asked. She replies, “To change them.”