Boston Palestine Film Festival 2008

A group of Jewish-Israeli activists break one of the country’s most sacred taboos: they cross into the occupied territories to join the non-violent Palestinian resistance to the occupation. They are the most radical leftist group in Israel. “Enraged” follows four activists as they bring food into Palestinian villages under curfew, tear down parts of the separation barrier, and serve as human shields trying to protect Palestinian demonstrators from Israeli soldiers. The heroes of “Enraged” pay a heavy price for their actions. At home in Israel they are ostracized by their own society; in Palestine, they endure a similar fate to that of the Palestinians—they are beaten, sprayed with tear-gas, and shot at with rubber-coated bullets. One such bullet hits one of the film’s main characters in the head, permanently impairing his eyesight. “Enraged” exposes a face of the Israeli left that is rarely seen or talked about. “Enraged” premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival last October, was broadcast several times on Israeli TV and was shown in theaters in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Eyal Eithcowich studied film and screen writing at New York University and HB Studio in New York. In addition to Enraged, he's directed a short fiction titled Practicing Bitterness and is currently working on his new documentary, City for All. Anarchists Against the Wall activist Matan Cohen will be present at the screening at Clark University in Worcester.

Stranger in my Home is a documentary film based on oral history. It relates the stories of eight Palestinian Jerusalemite families that have been turned into refugees in their own city. After 40 years, they recall the events that occurred in the Moghrabi Quarter of Jerusalem during the 1967 war. Each family goes to see their home which was occupied in 1948. The homes are located in the Baqa'a, Talbiyeh, Qatamon and Mosrarah neighborhoods of what is now West Jerusalem. Some of the families enter their former homes and have a discussion with the Israeli tenants currently occupying their homes. The film also includes an interview with the Israeli architect David Kroyanker who wrote books about these homes. Free Screening in Worcester