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Budrus (2009)

Director: Julia Bacha

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In 2004, residents of the Palestinian town of Budrus rallied together to protest against Israel’s wall of separation, which threatened to cut the villagers off from their farmland and olive groves. Using peaceful means and led by former Fatah member-turned-community organiser Ayed Morrar, the townsfolk planted themselves in the path of the bulldozers and refused to move, despite increasingly heated provocation. Bacha’s doc is an unemphatic, clear-sighted look at these protests and their outcome, from early town meetings to the inevitable involvement of Palestinian politicians, Israeli soldiers and international peace ambassadors. In refusing to romanticise the villagers or demonise their aggressors, she presents a stark and wholly believable portrait of the Middle East conflict in microcosm, while her welcome focus on character over political point-scoring gives ‘Budrus’ a weighty emotional kick.

Author: Tom Huddleston

Time Out London Issue 2092: 23–29 September, 2010

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Mauren Ukairo said...

Posted on Jul 03 2011 10:43 This film is about how the villagers of the West Bank town of Budrus used non-violent strategies to alter the path of the fence that the Israelis were putting up and shows how courageous unarmed villagers need to be against armed soldiers. It is a 'how they did it' film comment you type in this box will appear on the sinspiring and well worth watching.

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Janet Atlas said...

Posted on Oct 11 2010 03:09 This film was anything but a clear-sighted look at the honorable struggle against the fence in the town of Budrus. The filmmaker actually left the town, only to show Israeli politicians who were against this struggle and pro the barrier fence. It could have helped ongoing Palestian and Israeli conflicts if they showed Israeli citizens and politicians speaking of eliminating the fence. Bias by default, at best!

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