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Bil’in, My Love / Bil’in habibti

Israeli settlements in Palestinian occupied territories

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This is the tale of a small Palestinian village fighting to save its land in a non-violent struggle against the Israeli Army. Under the pretext of security reasons, Bil’in is to lose a large part of its land for construction of the separation wall and a new Israeli settlement. Trying to stop the bulldozers, the village inhabitants stand up to the troops in peaceful and highly original ways.

Having fought against settlements in dozens of places, Shai Carmeli-Pollak arrives in Bil’in, first of all as an activist and only later as a moviemaker. He stays there for almost a year, accompanying the people in their struggle and concentrating on two of them: Mohamed, a member of the local committee against the wall, and Wagee, father of ten children and owner of an olive plantation about to lose most of his land.

Year: 2006
Origin: Israel
Direction: Shai Carmeli-Pollak
Production: Claudia Levin / Claudius Films
Photography: Shai Carmeli-Pollak
Mounting: Amos Ponger, Tanya Raikhlin
Lenght: 84 min.
Contact: Claudius Films
Tfno: 972 52 23 85 334
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.claudiusfilms.com