The Voice of Ahmad
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I Am Ahmad, a 1966 13 min. revelatory short, was originally censored before its stormy release.
Fifty years later, top Arab and Jewish alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School conduct a poignant dialogue about “today’s Ahmad”, contending with questions of the impossible coexistence between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Jews that is rapidly deteriorating. Comprised of six chapters, the feature film is political, activist and fistful, mirroring a torn Israel. Yet, Voice of Ahmad is at times also funny, poetic and sarcastically utopian.
Credits
Director
David Ofek, Shadi Habib Allah, Doron Djerassi, Dan Geva, Noam Kaplan, Mamdooh Afdile
Production
Renen Schorr for Sam Spiegel Film & Television School
Co-production
Stav Meron for Pardes Films
Contact
World Sales
Michael Treves for JMT Films Distribution
Festival Handling
Michael Treves for JMT Films Distribution, Renen Schorr for Sam Spiegel Film & Television School
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Spoken languages
Arabic
Hebrew
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