Promises (2001 film)
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B.Z. Goldberg
Justine Shapiro
Justine Shapiro
Faraj Adnan Hassan Husein
Mahmoud Mazen Mahmoud Izhiman
Daniel Solan
Yarko Solan
Sanabel Hassan
Shlomo
Yoram Millo
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| Directed by | Carlos Bolado B.Z. Goldberg Justine Shapiro |
| Produced by | B.Z. Goldberg Justine Shapiro |
| Starring | Moishe and Raheli Bar Am Faraj Adnan Hassan Husein Mahmoud Mazen Mahmoud Izhiman Daniel Solan Yarko Solan Sanabel Hassan Shlomo |
| Cinematography | Ilan Buchbinder Yoram Millo |
| Edited by | Carlos Bolado |
Production company | Promises Film Project |
| Distributed by | Cowboy Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Arabic Hebrew |
Promises is a 2001 documentary film that examines the Israeli–Palestinian conflict from the perspectives of seven children living in the Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Israeli neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Promises has been shown at many film festivals and received excellent reviews and many accolades.
The film follows Israeli-American filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg as he meets with seven Palestinian and Israeli children between the ages of nine and thirteen, seeing the Middle East conflict through their eyes. It allows "ordinary" kids to develop natural bonds of affection by simply playing games with each other, bonds which go beyond the clutter of prejudices that they have heard from their parents and others around them.
Promises was shot between 1997 and 2000 and was produced in association with the Independent Television Service with partial funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The film has a running time of 106 minutes, and includes Arabic, Hebrew and English dialogue with English subtitles. After its theatrical run, an abridged version aired as an episode of the PBS series POV.[1]
In 2004 the filmmakers' produced a follow-up program called Promises: Four Years On, which features interviews and updates on the children's current lives. It lasts 25 minutes and is included as a special feature on the film's DVD release.
The children
- Daniel and Yarko: Israeli boys living in west Jerusalem, secular Jews, put off more by religious Jews than Palestinians; grandsons of Holocaust survivor
- Shlomo: Jewish quarter in Jerusalem, Orthodox, son of a rabbi from Jerusalem
- Moishe: lives in Beit-El in the West-Bank, dislikes the Arabs.
- Faraj: lives in the Deheishe refugee camp in the West Bank, Palestinian; son of Palestinian refugees
- Mahmoud: Palestinian quarter in East Jerusalem; son of a merchant in the Muslim quarter of the Old City
- Sanabel: Palestinian lives also in the Deheishe refuge camp, father is in prison because he was affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Her brother died from heatstroke, he was also in prison.