Arna’s Children

Heartbreakingly compassionate, this 2003 Israeli documentary by Danniel Danniel and Juliano Mer Khamis starkly juxtaposes a Jewish woman’s founding of a theater workshop for Palestinian refugee kids in 1989 and her actor son’s quest to discover what happened to these kids over a decade later and why. In contrast to the clueless media cliches about suicide bombers, this offers a comprehensive and comprehending portrait of what helps to produce them. In Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles. 84 min. (JR)

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