For a “New Palestine Cinema” – The Cinema of the Men Who Say No.

The Cinema of the Men Who Say No

WORLD PREMIERE

Gideon Bachmann. Germany, Israel, 1989, 43′

There are “men who say no”: in the extraordinary reportage rediscovered by Cinemazero, great Israeli filmmakers such as Avram Hefner, Uri Barbash, Rafi Buka’ee, Zeppel Yeshurun, say “enough” to violence.

There are Israeli filmmakers who thematize, through their fiction films, the contradictions of a country living in a state of perpetual militarization, further exacerbated by the outbreak of the First Intifāda (1987). With the conviction that “cinema cannot change reality, but help to understand it better,” these militant filmmakers use the camera to express their staunch opposition to anti-Arab policies, the recruitment of minors, and the indiscriminate use of violence. Originally made for ZDF but never broadcast, Bachmann’s film is dedicated to Gadi Danzig, an Israeli cameraman killed while working on the set.