Promises
Documentary
(83
min.)
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Rather than focusing on hard news and political events, Promises looks
at the Israeli - Palestinian conflict and prospects for peace by drawing
viewers into the hearts and minds of Jerusalem’s children. The film
focuses on seven Palestinian and Israeli children. Each child offers a
dramatic, emotional, and sometimes hilarious perspective into issues that
lie the heart of the Middle East conflict.
The children in Promises are between the ages of 8-13, an age group
that rarely speaks for itself. Neither as self-concious as teen-agers nor
as polite as adults, they communicate without self - censorship. Although
they live no more than 20 minutes apart, the children are locked in
separate worlds. Promises explores the boundaries that lie between
these children and tells the story of a few who dared to cross the lines
to meet their neighbors. Few visitors to the Middle East venture to the
places that Promises explores. Viewers who think they “get”
this conflict, and those who feel they’ve “had enough” of it, have
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