Minarets in the Face of Destruction

Israel/Palestine | 2002

Journeyman presents an Arab produced film which recently won the silver award at the Cairo Film Festival. Filmed from the point of the Palestinian Diaspora, it returns to Israel in search of mosques and other Palestinian holy sites left behind by the local population when Israel was created. What it finds at many of the sites of ancient mosques is destruction and desecration. In its moody and poe…