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AQABAT-JABER: PASSING THROUGH
France 1987 81 DigiBeta Color
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Film description
Aqabat-Jaber is one of the sixty Palestinian refugee camps built in the Middle East by the un at the beginning of the 1950s. It is the biggest camp in the Middle East, situated some 3 kilometers south of Jericho. the majority of its 65,000 inhabitants came from those villages in central Palestine that were destroyed in 1948. The 1967 war pushed 95% of that population across the banks of the river Jordan. the traces of war and the effects of erosion by the desert accentuate the contrasts between the abandoned refugees and the huts that they still occupy, and make Aqabat-Jaber look like a ghost town. filmed in 1987, a few months before the Intifada, this film tells the story of a disinherited generation brought up on the nostalgia of places they never knew and which no longer exist. the story of a temporary solution that became a permanent way of life. this film is about a ghost town, fed on nostalgia and memories.
1st Jury Prize - Cinema du Reel 1987, Paris
Golden Crown – Festikon 1988, Amsterdam
Air France & Radio France Prize - Belfort Film Festival 1988, France
Jury Prize, Social-Political Section - oakland IFF 1988, California
Jury Special mention - Internationale Filmwoche mannheim 1988, Germany
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