What's Your Story? Part I
Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage
Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Feature Experimental or Essay / Palestine, France, Qatar / 2012 / 55 min / Colour / Original Language: Arabic, Hebrew / Interests: Documentary, Middle Eastern, Politics, History, Religion, Social Issues, Identity, Docufiction
Synopsis
Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, meets five young Israelis with differing ideological perspectives. Through conversations about a variety of topics, they define their identities and express how they see themselves. They explore their identities at a deeper level than the simplistic image of Israeli as executioner, attempting to find the person within the political persona. From this point, their discussion moves to ways of giving space for the ‘Other’ to exist without delegitimising their own existence.
Credits
- Director
- Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier
- Screenwriter
- Pauline Carbonnier
- Producer
- Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier, Baheir Agbariya
About the Director
Jamal Khalaile was born in Acre in 1976 and graduated with a cinema and television degree from Jerusalem’s Hadassah College, where he studied directing and editing. He worked as location manager for filmmakers Elia Suleiman (‘The Time That Remains’), Tawfik Abu Wael (‘Tnathur’), Sameh Zoabi (‘Man Without Cell-Phone’) and Hiam Abbas (‘Inheritance’). Khalaile also edited the feature film ‘Bena’ by Niv Klainer.
Pauline Carbonnier was born in France and has directed several documentary films in Asia. She wrote and co-directed Part 1 of ‘Sho Qostak’ with Jamal Khalaile, and is now co-writing the second part of the trilogy in addition to working on her first feature film.
Awards and Festival History
Festivals
Panorama des films du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient 2013 (France)
Contacts
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Main Contact
Jamal Khalaile
- Company:
- Freelance
- Phone:
- +972 549 219 029
- Email:
- jkhalaile@gmail.com
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Main Contact
Pauline Carbonnier
- Company:
- Freelance
- Email:
- paulinecarbo@gmail.com