[van-announce] ZERO DEGREES OF SEPARATION film screening: May 25

[DOXA outreach]

Upcoming documentary film screening:

ZERO DEGREES OF SEPARATION
(Elle Flanders, Canada, 89 mins, director in attendance)

Director Elle Flanders interweaves the story of her family�s involvement in the founding of the state of Israel with a profile of two modern
same-sex couples, each struggling to reconcile the Palestinian-Israeli divide within their relationship.

Thursday, May 25, 2006, 7 pm
Vancouver International Film Centre, 1181 Seymour St (at Davie)
Tickets $10

Part of DOXA Documentary Film + Video Festival, May 23-28, 2006
http://www.doxafestival.ca

Full Synopsis of the film:
When your lover is most often considered your enemy, your relationship
has more at stake than the average affair. Selim and Ezra, a gay
Palestinian-Israeli couple, are fighting for the right to live together
in Jerusalem. Edit and Samira, a lesbian Palestinian-Israeli couple, are
trying to figure out how to bridge the divide between their cultures.
Existing on the margins of their societies, the couples cross borders
daily, sometimes physically, sometimes metaphorically. Through their
lives we gain a unique perspective on the Middle East conflict.

Interwoven into these stories is director Elle Flanders� own rich
narrative of growing up with Zionist grandparents intimately involved in
the founding of the state of Israel. Drawing the past into the present
through the use of home movies, the director retraces her grandparents�
travels as they tour a fledgling nation brimming with pioneering, joyous
youth, immigrants, refugees and endless open vistas of the Holy Land.

In stark contrast, the modern images of the Occupation expose the cracks
in the country�s foundation. Faced with endless barriers, the Palestinians
in Zero Degrees of Separation must constantly detour around their homes
and their land to go about their daily lives. Perhaps one of the greatest
obstacles to Palestinian daily existence is the Israeli bulldozer as it
destroys homes, builds barriers, settlements, and bypass roads, and tears
up what little is left of this land. Elle Flanders breaks with the
sensationalistic media coverage of the violence in the Middle East by
documenting the everyday lives of courageous, outspoken individuals as
they take small steps towards peace, mutual respect and hope.

Winner � Michael J. Berg Documentary Award, Frameline Lesbian & Gay Film
festival, San Francisco; Audience Choice Best Documentary, Barcelona
International Women�s Film Festival

Director�s Bio:
Elle Flanders was raised in Canada and Israel and began documenting the
effects of the Israeli state on Palestinian lives as an 18-year-old
photographer. Her film and photo work has focused primarily on alternative
visions of Judaism and contemporary views on Israel. Her previous films,
including Once and Surviving Memory, have screened internationally.


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DOXA Documentary Film + Video Festival
May 23-28, 2006
Vancouver, BC
http://www.doxafestival.ca
Phone 604.646.3200 Fax 604.254.1422
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Ticket Locations
Bibliophile Bookshop: 2010 Commercial Drive
Independent Flixx: 976 Denman Street
Videomatica: 1855 West 4th Avenue
The above ticket locations are cash-only.

Festival Box Office
1398 Cartwright St, Granville Island
604.257.0366
http://www.festivalboxoffice.com

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