Friday, August 5, 2016

 



"Smile, and the World Will Smile Back", a documentary film by the
al-Haddad family of Hebron made in collaboration with Ehab Tarabieh and
Yoav Gross -- volunteer photographers in B'Tselem's camera project and
filmmakers, respectively -- is to be screened as part of the short film
competition at the Berlinale International Film Festival.

The
film documents one winter's night at the al-Haddad home in Hebron. A
group of soldiers arrives for a routine night search there, for reasons
unknown to the family. Diaa and Shatha al-Hadaad, brother and sister,
pick up the home video camera and record the events as they unfold
throughout the night. The soldiers force Diaa to stand facing a wall,
saying they won't leave unless he stops smiling.

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