CINEMA JENIN - The Movie

CATEGORY: art, cinema, culture, Politics, society, transformation, youth
STATUS: in distribution
A Film by Marcus Vetter

CINEMA JENIN

The Story of a Dream

Cinema Jenin follows an ambitious initiative to re-open a previously abandoned cinema in the West Bank city of Jenin.
Synopsis

Founded in the 1960s, it was once the largest cinema in the Palestinian territories, today it stands as a hollow echo of its society. Re-building the cinema, Germans and Palestinians come together evoking often comedic but always political and cultural ramifications. Cinema Jenin witnesses an intimate, nuanced and textured view into the city and its domestic affairs as well as the journey of a dedicated, loyal, often conflicted group of people who hope that the re-building of the cinema will be a bridge to peace, education and Palestinian self-empowerment.

Runtime: 95 min.
| Film format: 35 mm, DCP
| Recording format: HD
Audio format: Dolby Digital
| Picture ratio: 1:1.85
Team

A film by Marcus Vetter
Camera: Aleksei Bakri
Sound: Aljoscha Haupt
Montage: Saskia Metten
Music: Avi Belleli, Sven Kaiser

Line producer: Marc Wächter (Germany) and Assaf Mor (Israel)
Produzenten: Uwe Dierks, Thomas Grube, Marcus Vetter, Philippa Kowarski

A production by
BOOMTOWN MEDIA, FILMPERSPEKTIVE and CINEPHIL

in coproduktion with
SWR | BR | NDR | arte
YES TV (Israel)
SENATOR FILM PRODUKTION

Funding
Sundance Institute
Rabinovic Foundation
MFG Baden Württemberg
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Deutscher Film Förderfonds
BKM
Distributors
SENATOR Film Verleih (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
World distribution
CINEPHIL, Tel Aviv
Honours
Special Award of the „Bernhard Wicki Filmpreis – Der Friedenspreis des Deutschen Films“
German Cinematography Award 2012

:: Official Cinema Jenin website

:: TO FIGHT FOR

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:: Page Advising

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This award winning and inspiring film about empowerment through dance and music is one of Germany‘s most successful documentaries ever.
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