Catalogue des films de « Simone Bitton »

"On 16 March 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old peace activist, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she was trying to prevent the destruction of Palestinian houses. Two opposing theses exist as to the circumstances of her death: a...

A film made on the two sides of the huge Security Wall currently build by the Israeli army. A cinematographic fresco about the absurdity and the madness of the israeli-palestinian conflict, proposed by a director who happens to be as much a Jew...

Israeli Arab: is there a more "impossible" notion of citizenship in the today's world? This film, which began shooting in the final weeks of Benyamin Netanyahu's "reign" and wrapped with Ariel Sharon's victory at the last elections, introduces us...

Not a new enquiry on the death in Paris in October 1965 of Moroccan opposition leader Ben Barka, this film concerns his life, because in a way his premature disappearance also crossed him out of history. At the very moment that Marocco is trying...

On September 4, 1997, three young Palestinians blew themselves up on a pedastrian street in Jerusalem, killing five Israeli civilians, three of them teenage girls. One of the girls was the grand-daughter of a famous Israeli pacifist. A month...

It is hard for Westerners to imagine the huge popularity which poets enjoy in the Arab world. From the Middle East to North Africa, not only do people read more poems than they do novels, but poetry is considered as a living art which should be...

During the Golf War, Serge Daney wrote that conversation was a "typically French-Arabic art" but that it couldn't happen anymore between himself and his Arabic friends. Therefore, we decided to offer Daney a cinematographic, as well as realistic...

The story of a land called Palestine, from the end of the 19th century until today. In 1948, the foundation of state of Israel split the land between Israelis and Palestinians, making it a key factor in the search for world peace. Using rare...

La voix de Oum Kalsoum se confond avec l’histoire de l’Egypte contemporaine. En cinquante ans de carrière, les moyens techniques et les régimes politiques se sont succédés, mais elle n’a jamais cessé de régner. En tant que femme, elle...

Pour mieux nous parler de sa mère, Simone Bitton est allée trouver Christiane l'Italienne, Norma la Palestinienne, Jacqueline la Juive algérienne et Nadira la Kabyle qui nous racontent la leur. Un hymne à quatre voix auxquelles s'ajoute celle...