NEWS from HOME

Abandoned by its Palestinian owner in the 1948 war; requisitioned by the Israeli government as vacant; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a university professor who undertakes its transformation into a three-story house in 1980…

This West Jerusalem building is no longer the microcosm it once was 25 years ago. Its inhabitants dispersed, this common space has disintegrated, but remains both an emotional and physical center at heart of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. Concrete reality has transformed into scattered stories and memories. A new identity, a new diaspora, have evolved.

With NEWS FROM HOME/NEWS FROM HOUSE, Amos Gitai completes the trilogy which began with 1980’s HOUSE and continued in 1998’S A HOUSE IN JERUSALEM. Creating a sort of human archeology, Gitai explores the relationships between the house’s inhabitants, past and present, between Israelis and Palestinians. Each in his or her own way becomes a sign of the region’s, the world’s, destiny.

Amos Gitai, 97 min, Israel/Belgium/France, Arabic/Hebrew/English with subtitles, 35mm

German release with the support of Filmstiftung NRW and the European Union in the framework of the Euromed Audiovisual Programme

screenings in Germany

• 7.10.2008 Filmmuseum Frankfurt
• 17.-21.9.2008 Kino 46 Bremen
• 1.9.2008 City-Kinocenter Mainz
• 6.8.2008 Filmpalette Köln
• 20.5.2008 Cine K Oldenburg
• 23.4.2008 Filmladen Kassel
• 1.-4.11.2007 Weltfilmtage Thusis
• 15.-20.5.07 freiburger film forum
• 27.3.07 VHS Dortmund
• 15., 20.+21.3.07 Blackbox Duesseldorf
• 28.1.07 Gassteig Munich
• 11.-15.1.07 Filmhaus Saarbruecken
• 4.-10.1.07 Camera Dortmund
• 26.+27.12.06 Subiaco Kinos Schramberg
• 19.-25.12.06 Subiaco Kinos Freudenstadt
• 12.-18.12.06 Subiaco Kinos Aipirsbach
• 2.+3.12.06 House of World Cultures Berlin
• 7.-11.12.06 Subiaco Kinos Schramber
• 21.+22.11.06 Kommunales Kino Luebck
• 15.11.06 Bali Kinos Kassel
• 03.-15.11.06 Cineding Leipzig
• 20.10.-01.11.06 Filmhauskino Cologne
• 19.10.-1.11.06 Thalia Augsburg
• 13.10.06 Indepent Filmdays Osnabrueck (in comeptition)
• 12.-17.10.06 Kinemathek Karlsruhe 
• 5.-18.10.06 Monopol Munich
• 28.9.-8.10.06 Mal Sehn Kino Frankfurt
• 22.-26.09.06 Kino im Kuenstlerhaus Hannover 
• 21.-27.09.04 3001 Kino Hamburg
• 07.-20.09.06 Cinema Muenster
• 07.-20.09.06 Eiszeit Berlin