Product Details

• Directors: Mohamed Bakri
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Arab Film Distribution
• DVD Release Date: December 18, 2002
• Run Time: 54 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000VXPYW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #95,309 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Ali Abunimah - The Electronic Intifada
"Unfiltered and unvarnished...a testament to human dignity and strength."

Product Description
Winner: 2002 Carthage International Film Festival
* Best Film *

Winner: International Prize for Mediterranean Documentary Filmmaking & Reporting

Jenin Jenin, directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor and director Mohamed Bakri, includes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army's Defensive Wall operation, during which the city and camp were the scenes of fierce fighting. The operation ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war crimes in the April 2002 attack on the refugee camp. Jenin Jenin shows the extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin.

Bitterness and grief are the prevailing feelings among the majority of the population. Many have lost loved ones or are still searching for victims and furniture among the debris. A little girl, who does not seem to be much older than twelve, tells her story but knows no fear. The ongoing violence in her day-to-day life only nourishes her feelings of hatred and the urge to take revenge. She tells what she would do to Prime Minister Sharon if he visited the camp and she shouts that the Palestinians will never give up the struggle. They will keep on producing children, who can continue the fight against injustice.

Banned in Israel, Jenin Jenin is dedicated to Iyad Samoudi, the producer of the film. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samoudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a military-closed area with three friends.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spell Bounding, December 2, 2005

By	Benjamin R. James "Jmsb01" (Monticello, Mn. USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For anyone who is not informed on how the Palestanians are oppressed you must see this video. The day to day life and death struggles the Palestanians have to endure at the hands of the Israeli Government, comes across in its most raw images.

29 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Film. , December 30, 2005

By	Morteza Aalami - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

To the people who have stated that this film is a fraud, and that such massacres have never occurred in Jenin SHAME ON YOU. How could you say that. You are worse than those who deny the Holocaust happening. Why must history repeat itself in a gross manner? Considering I have lived in Jenin, I find this film to be extremely accurate. A must see.

30 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Thumbs Up, Way Up, March 10, 2004

By A Customer

A bunch of us watched this movie last night and I tell you, there was not one dry eye in the house. It is amazing that in this day and age, a country [Israel] can literally get away with murder.

Run to buy this and judge for yourself. You will see first hand the old men, the children, the doctors and the grieving mothers of Jenin. You will hear how much the prolonged oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin and elsewhere in the Occupied Territories of Gaza and the West Bank. You will see the aftermath of the April 2002 attack which flattened homes and buried an unknown number of civilians -- scenes reminiscent of (if not worse than) South-African Apartheid at its height.