News from home / News from house / script and directing, Amos Gitai ; produced by Amos Gitai, Michael Tapuach, Laurent Truchot and Patrick Quinet ; a coproduction of Agat Films & Cie, Agav Films, Arte, Artemis Media, CNC, Hamon Productions Ltd
Abandoned by its Palestinian owner in the 1948 war, requisitioned by the Israeli government as vacant, rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956, and purchased by a university professor who undertakes its transformation into a three-story house in 1980, this West Jerusalem building is no longer the microcosm it was 25 years ago. Concrete reality has transformed into scattered stories and memories. A new identity, a new diaspora, has evolved. Gitai explores the relationships between the house's inhabitants, past and present, each in his or her own way becomes a sign of the region and the world's destiny
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