Ashes

Ashes is one of the very few documentaries about the Nakba : not an historical account, although there are many stock shots from the period, but a difficult and moving confrontation between a mother and a daughter. The mother who was chased from her village at the age of two, managed to live in Israël, and to transmit her sense of Palestinian and personal identity to her daughter - although she herself became, in the process, an « Israeli ». The daughter who wants more...

Director: Rima Essa

Release Date: 2001

Duration: 36mins