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  'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2010

  Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.

  
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  'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2010

  Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.

  
• October 14, 2010
  
  

  'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2010

  Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Muayad Alayan, Christian Bruno

  Robert Avila
  Jul 29, 2008

  Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, speaks about the making of Lesh Sabreen?.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Cinema, Israeli Style

  Michael Fox
  Feb 21, 2008

  Even as the country has become a typically affluent Western society, its cinema has retained its status as a crucial component of the national dialogue.

  
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  Eran Kolirin and "The Band's Visit"

  Judy Stone
  Feb 12, 2008

  Underneath The Band's Visit's poignant humor, the film subtly reflects the director's attempt to comprehend Israel's pull between the Middle East and the West.

  
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  Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart"

  SF360.org
  Jun 18, 2007

  The prolific British director, known for a large and eclectic body of work, has done something very unusual in the past half decade.

  
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  "Radical Closure" at the PFA

  Robert Avila
  Dec 7, 2006

  This series of cinematic responses to war, curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, opens up possibilities for re-imagining the dehumanized landscape of violence.

  
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  Amos Gitai's Reality

  Michael Fox
  Aug 1, 2006

  The veteran Israeli filmmaker, in town for the Jewish Film Festival, talks about radical art and Free Zone.

  
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  Masharawi Finds Palestinians In States of Suspended Animation

  Robert Avila
  Apr 20, 2006

  Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi's Waiting intricately and ingeniously intertwines irony, humor, and pathos.