The Israeli Film Festival Really Rocks.

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 2, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/229/the-israeli-film-festival-really-rocks

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Israel has a vibrant and sophisticated film industry. The Israeli Film Festival, which is still “on the (celluloid) boards” in New York City, is now in its twenty second year. It features a diversity of films which both celebrate and criticize Israel as well as life itself.

Saudi Arabia and other Arab Muslim states have nothing that compares.

In the mid-seventies, I was the moderator at the very first Middle East Film Festival which took place at the Bleecker Street Cinema with some discussions spilling over to New York University. That was an ambitious enterprise which, for the first time, showcased the work of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Arabs; of course, the God-blessed Jews were also fierce critics of the Jewish state.

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