Boston Palestine Film Festival 2008

In the center of the city of Hebron lies the Tel Rumeida neighborhood. In 1984, a new illegal settlement was established at the heart of the neighborhood. The illegal settlers of Tel Rumeida, known as particularly extreme, live on one side of a dead-end street. The Abu Ayesha family lives on the other side. B'Tselem is part of the Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories- has worked since 1989 to promote human rights in the occupied territories. B'Tselem combines first class research and innovative advocacy and public education strategies to effect change.

An Israeli filmmaker tells the story of two Palestinian homes whose owners fled during the 1948 war. The houses now serve as a museum and a daycare center. The story tackles the question of the right of return of Palestinian refugees, the workings of public and private memory and erasure, and the unearthing of these two houses' stories. Screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2008. Dorit Naaman is an Israeli film theorist and documentarist from Jerusalem, teaching at Queen's University, Canada. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern cinema, primarily from post-colonialist and feminist perspectives, and she is currently working on a book on the visual representation of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters. She has published articles in various media studies journals and has edited and co-edited special issues of Framework and Public respectively. Her documentary work is about identity politics and the politics of identity.

Innocent civilians who have been injured or lost a loved one are rarely compensated by the Israeli government. B'Tselem – the Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories- has worked since 1989 to promote human rights in the occupied territories. B'Tselem combines first class research and innovative advocacy and public education strategies to effect change. B'Tselem has published over 125 reports on a wide range of human rights issues, produced videos and created an extensive images and video archive, organized major public campaigns, and serves as an important source of information for journalists, researchers and the diplomatic community.