N°42 Outstanding Report The Grand Prix went to a remarkable investigative report by the young Eyal Sivan, called “Aqabat Jaber-A Transitory Life”. Aqabat Jaber is a Palestinian camp that was provisionally established on the West Bank of the Jordan by the United Nations Resettlement and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the early 1950s. Originally, there were 65.000 Palestinian refugees in the camp; today. 2.500 people are still there, supposedly waiting, deprived of their citizenship. ln this first film, the 23-year-old Sivan adopts different techniques, according to the subjects before his camera. An old woman is not shown in the same way as a lively young boy since the director tries to represent the lifestyle of each in their own..
Source : AfricAsia, 01.06.1987