The Film Class: Boston Jewish Film Festival
When I was in Israel last year I wrote several postings about Rahat, the Bedouin city a few miles to the north of where I was staying in Beer Sheva. Later, I described a new film by Uri Rosenwaks about the film class he taught to black Bedouin women. A really intriguing film about an aspect of Bedouin life getting just about no attention elsewhere.
Film Class will show this Sunday afternoon at the Boston Jewish Film Festival, at the great Coolidge Corner Theatre. Here’s the film’s series information:
The Film Class
Hachug Lekolnoa
Director: Uri Rosenwaks
Country: Israel
Released 2006
Duration: 53 min.
Language: Arabic / Hebrew w/ subtitlesDirector Uri Rosenwaks went to Rahat, a town in the Negev desert, to teach beginning filmmaking to a class of Afro-Bedouin women. When he learns that the Afro-Bedouins were enslaved by the white Bedouins as recently as 50 years ago, he accompanies his students on an astounding and unforgettable journey of discovery that leads back to Africa.
Earlier on Sunday, Rosenwaks will be part of a panel discussion on Israeli film. What makes an Israeli film “Israeli”? What makes an Israeli film about Bedouin fit into a Jewish Film Festival? Should be an interesting panel.
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October 31st, 2007 at 10:11 pm
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The Film Class will also be screened at MESA’s (Middle East Studies Association) Annual Meeting in Montreal during the conference’s “film fest”. It will be shown on Nov 19 at 8:50 AM.