The ruins of Lifta : where the Holocaust and Nakba meet / a First Run Features release ; a film by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky ; produced, written and directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Daum, Menachem, film director, film producer, screenwriter.

Rudavsky, Oren, film director, film producer, screenwriter, videographer.

First Run Features (Firm), distributor.

Language:

Arabic

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish-Arab relations.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.

Lifta (Israel)--History.

Lifta (Israel).

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (77 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Distributed by First Run Features, [2019]

Language Note:

In English with some dialog in Hebrew or Arabic with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Lifta is the only Arab village abandoned in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been completely destroyed or repopulated by Jews. Its ruins are now threatened by an Israeli development plan that would convert it into an upscale Jewish neighborhood. Discovering that his parents' Holocaust experiences may have distorted his views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Menachem--the filmmaker and an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn--sets out to establish a personal relationship with a Palestinian.

Credits:

Editor, Nick August-Perna ; camera by Oren Rudavsky, Danae Elon, Adam Shuldman ; music by Clare and Olivier Manchon.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced in 2016.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 13, 2019).

Publisher Number:

fr-ruin Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.