| Kafr Kassem |
Lebanon, Syria / 1974 / 115min Director: Borhan Alaouie Producer: National Film Organization Script: Borhan Alaouie Director of Photography: Peter Anger Composer: Walid Golmieh Production Design: Tajeddine Taji Sound: Henry Morelle, Edit: Eliane Dubois Cast: Abdallah Abbasi, Ahmad Ayoub, Salim Sabri |
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On an October afternoon in 1956, with the Sinai campaign about to be launched, Israeli border police imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Arab villages near the Jordanian border. Arriving at their homes after work, many villages of Kafr Kassem were unaware of their violation of the newly announced curfew. Forty-seven of these Israeli Arabs were killed when Israeli troops opened fire on the village. The film reconstructs this much-remembered event in Arab and Israeli history, especially with an eye to detailing the life of the community before it suffered the massacre. The film won the Golden Tanit award in Carthage International Film Festival, Tunisia, 1974.     
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Borhane Alaouié
Borhane Alaouié was born in 1941 in Lebanon and is a Belgian citizen. He studied direction at INSAS, Brussels, and after a number of short films, he directed the award-winning feature Kafr Kassem (1974). He wrote and directed Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres (1978), Lettre d’un temps de guerre (1985) and Assouan (1991). Khalass (2007) is his newest feature film. Filmography
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