Movies are a great way to learn about Palestine – and, more important, to educate family, friends, and neighbors. Fortunately, there are scores of great films about the plight of the Palestinians and its historical roots – if the quality and quantity of documentaries on the situation determined the outcome, the Palestinians would have won a substantial measure of justice long ago. And in the Internet age most of these films are available at the click of a mouse, for free or at nominal cost. The bad news is that it hasn’t been particularly easy to locate such movies. But now two European professors of film studies are taking on that challenge with PalestineDocs, a new website designed to serve as “a web resource on films chronicling the life of Palestinians in and outside the Middle East.” The site’s ever-growing database currently includes more than 100 documentaries, grouped in a dozen or so categories (“Gaza,” “Camps,” “Exile,” etc.); for each listing, there’s a one- or two-paragraph synopsis and links to sites from which the movie can be streamed free, rented, or purchased. palestinedocs.net/
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 00:24:13 +0000
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