Welsh-Jewish film-maker Mike Joseph records his dialogue with a Palestinian journalist that reaches across an agonising divide
Made on an infinitesimal budget but with compassion, empathy and consideration, this documentary is the product of an encounter between two journalists. Mike Joseph is a Welsh Jew whose mother just barely escaped the Holocaust (the rest of her immediate family weren’t so lucky); Sami Abu Salem is Palestinian reporter living in Gaza, who has lost members of his family and close friends in the violence inflicted on Palestinians since the founding of Israel. His mother remembers the slaughter that killed dozens of people in her village, Bureir or Burayr, in 1948, a decimation wrought as Israelis established the kibbutz Bror Hayil nearby.
Years later on that kibbutz’s farms, Abu Salem worked as a young man, excited to be visiting the location of his family’s home town, even if it had all been wiped out.
Made on an infinitesimal budget but with compassion, empathy and consideration, this documentary is the product of an encounter between two journalists. Mike Joseph is a Welsh Jew whose mother just barely escaped the Holocaust (the rest of her immediate family weren’t so lucky); Sami Abu Salem is Palestinian reporter living in Gaza, who has lost members of his family and close friends in the violence inflicted on Palestinians since the founding of Israel. His mother remembers the slaughter that killed dozens of people in her village, Bureir or Burayr, in 1948, a decimation wrought as Israelis established the kibbutz Bror Hayil nearby.
Years later on that kibbutz’s farms, Abu Salem worked as a young man, excited to be visiting the location of his family’s home town, even if it had all been wiped out.
- 7/22/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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