‘Muhi: Generally Temporary’ Is Essential Viewing For Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict In Human Terms — SF Film Festival Review
Palestinian & Israeli Conflict • Medical Ethics • Identity • Separation • Childhood • Resilience • Peace • War • Human Rights
Date of Completion: 2017 | Run Time: 86 minutes | Languages: Hebrew & Arabic | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript & Study Guide | Director: Rina Castelnouvo-Hollander & Tamir Elterman | Producer: Hilla Medalia | Production company: Medalia Productions | Co-Producer: Jürgen Kleinig- Neue Celluloid Fabrik | Executive Producers: Jill Samuels, John Priddy Ed Priddy, Danna Stern, Tina Leeb
For the past seven years MUHI, a brave and spirited Palestinian boy has been living in an Israeli hospital, unable to return to his home in Gaza. Caught between two worlds and two peoples, MUHI is raised in paradoxical circumstances that transcend identity, religion and the conflict that divides his world. His time at the hospital is running out and MUHI now faces the most critical choices of his life.
The Canadian Jewish News | Jordan Adler
"[A] way of illuminating the [Israeli-Palestinian conflict] in a way that we really hadn’t seen before."
World Socialist Web Site | Joanne Laurier
"[One] of the film’s strongest elements is its documenting of the deep friendship between Buma and Abu Naim—an Israeli and a Palestinian who have both lost sons in the conflict."
Now Toronto | Susan G. Cole
"This doc is a powerful metaphor for the intractable conflict in the Middle East. Life there could be happy, if only."
FF2 Media | Nora Lee Mandel
"Despite saccharine playing on the heartstrings for a disabled child overcoming adversity with infectiously good spirits, his isolation, dependence and adaptation are perceptively used as a prism to see the ironies, prejudices, difficulties and tensions of humanitarianism when first world medical care is just 43 miles from third-world conditions – and impacted by the bitter strife between Palestinians, and between Palestinians and Israelis."
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AWARDS
Mayor of Tel Aviv-Jaffa Award for Best Debut Film | Docaviv International Film Festival
GOLDEN DOVE AWARD for Best Long Documentary | DOK Leipzig
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