The Judge
Aos doze anos, Zain carrega uma série de responsabilidades: é ele quem cuida de seus irmãos no cortiço em que vive junto com os pais, que estão sempre ausentes graças ao trabalho em uma mercearia. Quando sua irmã de onze é forçada a se casar com um homem mais velho, o menino fica extremamente revoltado e decide deixar a família. Ele passa a viver nas ruas junto aos refugiados e outras crianças que, diferentemente dele, não chegaram lá por conta própria. Sobrevive graças à sua esperteza nas ruas, cuida da refugiada etíope Rahil e seu bebê Yonas. É preso por um crime violento e, enquanto cumpria uma pena de cinco anos, ele processa seus pais por negligência.
Self
Documentary filmmaker Makoto Sato offers this reflection on the life and career of Edward Said, the deeply influential literary and cultural critic, Columbia University academic, and outspoken advocate for displaced Palestinians, of whom he was one. Exploring the landscapes of Said's childhood and how they influenced his philosophy, this film features rare footage of Said and interviews with many of his colleagues, including Noam Chomsky.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) student brigade included leftist students from Lebanon who mobilized around the struggle for the liberation of Palestine in the early 1970s. With the departure of the PLO’s armed forces from Lebanon after the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982, the brigade was disbanded. Mohamed Soueid was part of the group, and as the Lebanese civil war ended, he decided to film them and revisit their shared sites of memory, drawing a raspy-voiced portrait of defeated militants infused with poetry and generously doused in alcohol.
Original Story
Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.
