Sun May 27 | 4:00 pm | PC

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Directors: Avi Hershkovitz & Sharon Hammou, France, 2006, 70 minutes
Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles

In Galilee, one of Israel’s most ethnically diverse regions, 200 children aged 6 to 14 (Muslims, Jews and Christians) study at the Galil School, the first bilingual Jewish-Arabic school in Israel. Each class is half Jewish and half Arabic with two teachers teaching in both Hebrew and Arabic, encouraging students to openly discuss events of their entangled cultures.

One day, fifth grade teachers Rasmia and Dana set out two maps – one is a map of Israel today, the other a 1947 map of Palestine. The young students discover that many of their houses in Ya’ad were built on the land of a Palestinian village that was called Mi’ar. Galil explores the exposed nerve of the Palestine-Israel conflict through the eyes of the students, staff and parents at this extraordinary school. Though the documentary doesn’t shy away from the complexity of the situation, it presents hope in a possible solution.

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Something Other than Other

Directors: Jerry A. Henry & Andrea Chia, USA, 2006, 8 minutes
The day Andrea Chia found out that she was pregnant, she and her partner started to film a video diary. Each having endured their share of racism growing up, the new parents create this intimate experimental documentary and their hope that their multi-racial son will be able to grow up identifying as something other than “other.”

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