synopsis
Al Amari is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the West Bank. It has been here for more than seventy years and during this time its original appearance has been replaced by concrete buildings resembling a regular city. This is the Czech director’s second visit to this distinctive community, and despite many residents’ wariness of her, she forms friendships with the locals. The film consists of several portraits of refugees living in Al Amari and provides a report on the difficult everyday life of people surrounded by fear, war and violence. Taken as a whole, these portraits form the story of the filmmaker and her protagonists.
„Here, you don’t actually do what you think or want. You do what the community wants, what your religion wants, what your family wants…“ (From the film.)
biography
Kristýna Kopřivová was born in 1987 in Norway. She studied art history, political philosophy, curating and cultural studies. Today, she is studying documentary film at FAMU and is attending a doctoral programme in media studies. For
8 1/2 Bottles, she observed life in a refugee camp in Palestine.
more about film
| director: | Kristýna Kopřivová |
| producer: | Mirona Radu, Mohanad Yaqubi, Kristýna Kopřivová |
| sound design: | Mihai Vasiu |
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Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2021 |
| section: | Czech Joy |
| language: | English, Czech, Arabic |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Colour |
