A0470_R IBT 03_07 00420 PM Refugee Film. 0418 Palestinians Watch Prize-Winning Film About Their Refugee Camp By DAN IZENBERG associated press writer Aqabat Jaber, Occupied West Bank (AP) - Some 200 Palestinian refugees living in mud homes in a dusty patch of desert near the biblical town of Jericho watched a prize-winning film about their lives and loved it. Paris-based Israeli director Eyal Sivan, 23, said it was the first time a film about Palestinian refugees had been screened for the refugees themselves. The all-male audience, some of whom starred in the 90-minute film, gathered in an empty classroom Thursday to laugh and cheer as they pointed at themselves and their neighbours on the screen. Imad Il Hodeli, a 24-year-old native..
Source : Dan Izenberg — Associated Press, 03.07.1987