Boston Palestine Film Festival 2008

Elias Jubran is a music teacher and oud maker who has lived in Galilee since before it became part of Israel in 1948. Though his four children have grown up to live very different lives, they each share his love of music. Telling Strings examines the unique beauty of the oud and the enduring strength of Palestinian musical heritage. What is necessary so that a culture – suppressed by the Israeli State – may continue to develop itself?

The film features Kamilya Jubran daughter of Elias and well known member of the Palestinian group Sabreen.

Voice Forward Film Festival Toronto 2007, CARAVAN of Euro Arab Cinema, Amman (Jordan) 2008, Toronto Palestine Film Festival 2008.

Anne Marie Haller started her career as a freelance journalist in several Swiss newspapers, and magazines. With more than five years in the Public Swiss Radio Station, DRS1, she was an editor, reporter and presenter of the program “Espresso” and the editor of “Ratgeber”. Her career as a filmmaker started in 2001, producing and directing documentary films.