new release!!!

 Alive in Limbo

 Directors
 Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir
 Tina Naccache
 Erica Marcus

 Producer
 Erica Marcus

 Co-Producer
 Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir

 Original Score
 Ziad Sahab

 Other Music
 Biogen Mum
 Nasser Shamma
 Natasha Atlas
 Oz
 Plastic
 Ruxpin
 Rythm of Snow

 Shooting Format
 Hi8mm, BetaCam SP
 & DV Exhibition

 Format
 Digital BetaCam,
 BetaCam SP,
 DVCAM  

Length
 56:40 minutes

   

       RayMar Educational Films & Krumma Films present

                 


For information on future screenings, broadcast
or obtaining copies of
ALIVE IN LIMBO
contact Erica Marcus

 

Year of Production
 1993 - 2004

Completion Date
 April 2004

 Country of Production
 Lebanon

 Co Production Countries
 USA
 Iceland

 

  



BACKGROUND

In 1993, the filmmakers met five kids in Lebanon. Four Palestinian refugees and one Lebanese boy.
At the time, many people around the world were celebrating the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords between the Israelis and the Palestinians that was supposed to signal a new future for youth in the Middle East.

As pre-teens, the Palestinians in the film, Wasim, Nisreen, Mostafa and Manal played, lived and dreamed in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut. They are the third generation of Palestinian refugees to grow up in Lebanon since 1948 when their families fled or were forced to flee from their homes in Palestine. The Lebanese youth, Hussein, lived just outside the Israeli occupied zone in South Lebanon and explained how the Israeli shelling of his region made it hard to study and go to school. He expressed a very modest vision for his future; he wanted to live somewhere where no bombs fell.

  

 




In 1999, 2000 and 2002, we searched for these same youth as they were entering adulthood. They still live in Lebanon. The Palestinian youth still have hope of going home since UN Resolution 194 guarantees them the right to return to their homeland. In South Lebanon, Hussein shows us how the local economy has been impacted by the twenty-two year-long Israeli occupation which ended in 2000. The youth in this film, like kids everywhere, talk about girlfriends and boyfriends and dream of the future. Yet these dreams are nurtured against a backdrop of history and politics that they can't wish away.

The film is a collaboration by three filmmakers, the Icelandic Hrabba Gunnarsdottir, Tina Naccache from Lebanon and Erica Marcus, an American Jew.

 

 

For more information contact erica@ericamarcus.com