Aqabat Jaber: Vie de Passage (Aqabat Jaber: Passing Through) (FRENCH.DOCU-COLOR) A Dune Vision production. Produced by Thibault de Corday. Written and directed by Eyal Sivan. Camera (coIor), Nurith Aviv; editor, Ruth Schell; sound, Remy Attal. Reviewed at Toronto Festival of Festivals, Sept. 18, 1987. Running time: 80 MINS. Toronto - As parched and spare as the landscape it chronicles, "Aqabat Jaber: Passing Through" is a coarsely realistic and depressing look at one of the largest Palestinian refugee camps. Strictly for specials houses, pic would fare better as a public broadcasting spec than a theatrical feature. Aqabat Jaber was set up on the occupied West Bank in 1948 for 65,000 Palestinians who were uprooted fro..
Source : Variety, 23.09.1987