Arna’s Children

Name: Arna’s Children
Director: Danniel Danniel,Juliano Mer-Khamis
Released: 2004

Danniel Danniel Juliano Mer-Khamis 2004

Legendary activist Arna Mer Khamis married a Palestinian Arab and spent her life campaigning for justice and human rights in her homeland of Israel. She founded an alternative education system and opened a theatre group for Palestinian children where her son, Juliano Mer Khamis, was a director. The theater group struggled to continue after Arna died in 1995 and ultimately did not survive. 5 years after Arna’s death, Juliano returns to the camp to discover what happened to Arna’s children. Mer Khamis’s film juxtaposes the sweet-faced young boys with the militants and martyrs they become. Arna’s Children reveals the tragedy and horror of young lives trapped by the circumstances of occupation.

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Running Time:	84 min.
Subject(s):	Arts and Culture, Children, Education, Ethnography, Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Middle Eastern Studies, War
Language(s):	Arabic, English, Hebrew
Subtitles:	English
Director(s):	Danniel Danniel Juliano Mer-Khamis
Producer(s):	Osnat Trabelsi, Pieter van Huystee
Cinematographer:	Juliano Mer-Khamis, Hanna Abu Saada, Uri Steinmetz
Editor(s):	Govert Janse, Obbe Verwer
Production Company:	Pieter Van Huystee Film and Television, Trabelsi Productions

Festival Participation

Tribeca Film Festival - 2004
Best Documentary Feature
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival - 2004
FIPRESCI Prize
Gouden Beeld - 2004
Best Documentary

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