NEW JERSEY PREMIERE
BLOOD RELATION
Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Noa Ben Hagai
Winner: Amnesty International Human Rights Film Award
Winner: Second Place for Best Documentary, DocAviv, Israel
Nominee: Best Documentary, Israeli Academy Awards, 2010
In the early 1940s, 14-year-old Pnina disappeared near her home in what is now Israel. Years later, she began sending letters to her family from her home in the West Bank. Filmmaker Noa Ben Hagai journeys to uncover the mystery of her great-aunt Pnina and her family in the Palestinian Territories with the help of her uncle, a retired colonel in Israeli intelligence. Blood Relation chronicles the meetings between members of this Jewish-Arab family over the course of three years, in Israel and Nablus, and reveals the complexities involved when a family member marries “out.”
A limited number of tickets may be available at showtime for sold-out films. Starting one hour before the screening, names will be taken at the theater for a stand by list. If seats are available, tickets will be sold at the time of the film.
Website: http://blood-relation.com/
See trailer
Film review in The Guadian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/08/israel-palestine-jewish-film-festival
