Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Rima Essa | 36 minutes

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ASHES

Rima Essa 2001 docu 35 min.

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...

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/40481687

Ha'Aretz interview with Rima Essa:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/no-one-can-help-such-children-
1.304951

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