Arna's Children

Arna's Children
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJuliano Mer Khamis
Danniel Danniel
Produced byOsnat Trabelsi
Pieter van Huystee
Release date
  • April 20, 2004 (2004-04-20) (One World Film Festival)
Running time
84 minutes
CountriesIsrael
Netherlands
LanguagesArabic
Hebrew

Arna's Children is a 2004 Dutch-Israeli documentary film directed by Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel. The film's story revolves around a children's theater group in Jenin in the Palestinian territories established by Arna Mer-Khamis, the director's mother, an Israeli Jewish political and human rights activist.

The film portrays the lives of Arna Mer-Khamis and the children members of the theater including Ala el-Sabagr, Zakaria Zubeidi, Daud Zubeidi, Majdi Shadi, Haifa Staiti, Nidal Swetti, Yussef Swetti, Mahmoud Kaneri, Khairia Fakhri and Ashraf Abu-Alheji.[1][2][3][4]

The film won "Best Documentary Feature" in the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.

  1. ^ "Arna's Children (2004)". imdb.com. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  2. ^ DARGIS, MANOHLA (8 October 2004). "Young Voices From the Front Lines". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Arna's Children". metacritic.com. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Arna's Children (2003)". rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 23 November 2013.

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