Boston Palestine Film Festival 2008 : First Picture

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First Picture

Akram Al-Ashqar 2006

Categories: Documentary Short

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Run time: 26 min. | Palestine

A touching glimpse at the experience of a very young Palestinian boy just after he is removed from the Israeli penal system. His family and others try to reassure him during his first taste of the “free” world, yet he can’t help but miss the place where he was born, the place where his mother remains: her prison cell.

Akram Al-Ashqar was born in Tulkarm in 1982. He graduated from the Arab American University in 2006 as a Computer Information Technology Professional. Al-Ashqar participated in the Palestinian Audio - Visual Project 2005 Training Program by A.M. Qattan Foundation. He directed the short film Red, Dead and Mediterranean (2006), which was about a generation of Palestinian children who are obsessed with a sea they know nothing about. This was part of the “Palestine Summer 2006” project; a film collection co-produced by "Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective" & Akka Films.