To Shoot an Elephant

Alberto Arce / Mohammed Rujailah

Festival selections :
A Matter of ACT, IDFA Selection

Talkshows & debates

To Shoot an Elephant - Q&A Alberto Arce

maandag, March 29, 2010 - 19:30

The film will be followed by a Q&A with director Alberto Arce. Moderator is Kees Brienen.

 

To Shoot an Elephant - Interview Colonel Travers, Goldstone Commission

zondag, March 28, 2010 - 16:00

Followed by an interview with Colonel Desmond Travers, member of the Goldstone Commission, and director Alberto Arce about the war in Gaza and about how to reach an end to impunity for war crimes committed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

To Shoot an Elephant

Alberto Arce / Mohammed Rujailah

What is it like to live in the Gaza Strip, an area of about 140 square miles that is home to one and a half million Palestinians? Unemployment is high and almost half the population is under fourteen year. In 'To Shoot an Elephant' director Alberto Arce zooms in on life in Gaza, which is occupied by Israel. As a member of the International Solidarity Movement, one of the few aid organisations that is still active in the Gaza Strip, Arce was filming there late 2008 and early 2009, when fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified. Approximately 1,300 civilians were killed in the hostilities and air attacks that took place during that period. Arce was one of the few foreign journalists that witnessed the shelling from within the Gaza Strip. The filmmaker turns his camera on the ambulance personnel. They take the dead and wounded off the street, putting their own lives on the line. When they try to shelter a corpse, they get fired at.
The International Solidarity Movement is also featured in the film 'Rachel', which can be seen at the Movies that Matter Festival, too. Alberto Arce will be present at the festival.

Spain 2009, 112 min.

Documentary, Video, Colour

Spoken language: Arabic, English

Subtitles: English

Official website: http://www.toshootanelephant.com

Awards: Best director award - Florence’s Festival dei Popoli 2009 Golden Butterfly Amnesty International’s A Matter of ACT Award for the best documentary - Movies that Matter Festival 2010

Productions:

Eguzki Bideoak

Adam Redgrove

banaketak@eguzkibideoak.info

+34948211537

www.eguzkibideoak.info

World sales:

Eguzki Bideoak

Adam Redgrove

banaketak@eguzkibideoak.info

+34948211537

www.eguzkibideoak.info

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