Arna's Children (2004)

Original title

הילדים של ארנה

Directed by

Danniel Danniel, Juliano Mer-Khamis

Genre

documentary film

Country

Palestine, Israel, Netherlands

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a children's theater group in Jenin started by a Jewish Israeli activist. It shows the lives of the kids and the woman who ran the program.

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What happens

Arna's Children is a 2004 Dutch-Israeli documentary film directed by Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel. The film's story revolves around a children's theater group in Jenin in the Palestinian territories established by Arna Mer-Khamis, the director's mother, an Israeli Jewish political and human rights activist. The film portrays the lives of Arna Mer-Khamis and the children members of the theater including Ala el-Sabagr, Zakaria Zubeidi, Daud Zubeidi, Majdi Shadi, Haifa Staiti, Nidal Swetti, Yussef Swetti, Mahmoud Kaneri, Khairia Fakhri and Ashraf Abu-Alheji. The film won "Best Documentary Feature" in the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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