GRIEF AND REVOLT
Middle-East: On both sides of war women remember and long for peace

Documentary film based on the book THE WAR WITH TWO VOICES by Laurence Deonna
42 minutes
Video, colour


Original version: Arabe and Hebrew / English version

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Scriptwriter and director	Lucienne Lanaz
Co-scriptwriter	Laurence Deonna
Protagonists	Iman Ahmed Hussein Rachel Girafi
Original music	Daniel Jeanin
Camera	Joss Szymansk
Technique	José et Marilou Maldavski
Editing	Lucienne Lanaz Ch. Derengnaucourt-Fischer
Graphics	Mary-Jo Fahrny
Postproduction	Fonction:Cinéma, Genève TVF, Genève Zone 33, Berne UNO Geneva

SYNOPSIS

Flooded by information on the Middle East, we tend to assume that we are well informed. Yet, most of the time this information barely scratches the surface, let alone addresses the core of people's lives.

Setting aside spectacular headlines, this film aims to dig deeper by having us hear the voices and see the faces of women whom history has pitted against one another – women who have each lost someone dear to them. In their own words, three Jewish and three Arab women bare witness to their lives and the fact of their beloved who continue to live in their dreams. They testify to archaic traditions that crush widows. Whatever their religious or social origins, the pain of these women "in enemy camps" is the same and is not erased by time regardless of appearances.