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This Way Up

by Georgi Lazarevski

Premiere: August 25, 2009

The security wall being built by Israel on the West Bank has isolated a nursing home, leaving its residents to face old age in the throes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

9 Star Hotel

by Ido Haar

Premiere: July 22, 2008

A group of young Palestinian men work illegally as construction laborers in the Israeli city of Modi'in. Caught between Israeli security laws and a Palestinian Authority they see as having failed them, they work for Israeli contractors by day while hiding from police by night.

My Country, My Country

by Laura Poitras

Premiere: October 25, 2006

Working alone in Iraq over eight months, filmmaker Laura Poitras takes an unforgettable journey into the heart of war-ravaged Iraq in the months leading up to the January 2005 elections.

Promises

by B. Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro, Carlos Bolado

Premiere: December 13, 2001

What is it really like to live in Jerusalem? Promises offers touching and fresh insight into the Middle East conflict through the eyes of seven Palestinian and Israeli children.