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5 Minutes from Home
The Jerusalem Airport lies along the road that links Jerusalem to Ramallah. At a 5 kilometer distance from Ramallah and 10 kilometer distance from Jerusalem, the airport has been occupied by the Israeli army since 1967. Nahed Awwad has witnessed the expansion of this east side of the dusty runway, to become a large checkpoint for access into the West Bank. Notwithstanding, she discovers that it has not always been as such, and that this sad spot today used to be a place where international aircrafts landed in the 1950s and 1960s, when there used to be free travelling. The happy images and testimonies of the past contrast bitterly with those of the present. Nahed goes to meet this place, evoking the past in order to have a better apprehension of the present: today’s Palestinian reality that is marked by forgetfulness.
Palestine - 2008 - 52 mn - DV Cam • 4/3 • PAL - Colour
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