THE BOMBING

  • Direction

    Simone Bitton
  • Author

    Simone BITTON
  • Coproduction

    with the participation of
    Centre National de la Cinématographie
    Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
    PROCIREP
    Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la
    Communauté française de Belgique

Synopsis

On September 4th, 1997, three young Palestinians from the same Israeli-occupied West Bank village blew themselves up in a crowded pedestrian street in Jerusalem, spreading death and destruction around them. Among the twenty victims were three Israeli high school girls. This film is the story of these six adolescents seen from the angle of ?crossed destinies? – the young people of Israel and Palestine whose spilled blood mingled that day on the sidewalk of horror. Forgetting the on-going conflict, the boys? and girls? parents meet with each other to voice their suffering. From the depths of their pain, from the deepest personal sorrow, their voices and faces of merging on the screen, comes an irresistible will to make peace.

  • Available versions

    Couleur, VF Sous titrée, V Ang. sous titrée
  • Support location

    35 mm
  • Distributor

    DOC & CO
  • Technical team

    Editing : Mireille Abramovici
    Sound : Roni Berger
    Camera : David Benchetrit
  • Festival

    Mention spéciale du jury à Doc Aviv -Tel Aviv 1999
    Séance spéciale hors compétition au 21ème festival Cinéma du Réel 1999