‘9-Star Hotel’ Documentary Watchable Online
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
This film documents the lives of a group of young Palestinian men working illegally as construction laborers in the Israeli city of Modi’in. Caught between Israeli security laws and a Palestinian Authority they see as having failed them, they work for Israeli contractors by day while hiding from police by night. Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar has crafted a powerful vérité film that illuminates the plight of young men questioning their own culture while struggling to survive in the midst of bitter conflict.
Click here for more: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/9starhotel/fullfilm.html
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