Slingshot Hip Hop (2008)

Directed by

Jackie Salloum

Genre

documentary film

Country

Occupied Palestinian territories, United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows young Palestinian hip hop artists in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel. They use music to overcome barriers of occupation and express their lives.

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What happens

Slingshot Hip Hop is a 2008 documentary film directed by Jackie Reem Salloum that traces the history and development of hip hop in the Palestinian territories from the time DAM pioneered the art form in the late 1990s. It braids together the stories of young Palestinian artists living in Gaza, the West Bank, and inside Israel as they discover hip hop, and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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