"Breaking the Silence" Toshikuni Doi

The documentary film,
"Breaking the Silence"
2009, Japan
Director: Toshikuni Doi
Production Company: Siglo, Ltd.
Web site: http://www.doi-toshikuni.net

Spring 2002. The Israeli army mounts an offensive against West Bank refugee camps in Jenin and Balata. Two years later, former Israeli soldiers open a photo exhibition called "Breaking the Silence" and openly discuss acts of aggression they committed in the occupied territories. Scenes of life and death in the refugee camps are interwoven with frank, soul-searching interviews with ex-soldiers about the dehumanizing effects of occupation. Palestinians, surviving seemingly hopeless oppression, and young Israelis, speaking out despite accusations of betrayal, the film transcends the frame of the Palestine-Israel problem to address, from multiple perspectives, a subject of universal significance.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Israel
• Palestine
• IDF
• Nablus
• Jenin
• Breaking the Silence
• Shovrim Shtika
• Toshikuni Doi