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Budrus
Directed by
Julia Bacha
G
2010
70m
Documentary
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7.8
88%
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Follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter jumps into the fray.
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Cast of Budrus
Jonathan Gould
Kobi
Julia Bacha
Director / Writer / Producer
Ronit Avni
Producer
Rula Salameh
Producer
Budrus Ratings & Reviews
In These Times
Michael Atkinson
Morrar is the kind of man who pursues collective social progress rather than headlines or offices. He is the governor or congressman we wish we all had but never do.
Modamag.com
Harvey S. Karten
An intense, albeit one-sided, documentary on location during demonstrations by the Palestinians in the village of Budrus against Israeli encroachments.
Detroit News
Tom Long
This all goes on until Bacha either runs out of budget, patience or film, and ends up cutting to the somewhat positive results.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
No one can believe that "Budrus" is showing us the key to peace in the Middle East. But any positive note about this most intractable of conflicts should be savored.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Bacha, who worked on the impressive 2004 documentary "Control Room," does well to focus on one tiny town and its leading citizens; "Budrus" is at its best when she keeps the scale small.
Boston Herald
James Verniere
Using straight-to-camera interviews and circa-2003 footage of the confrontations between villagers and Israeli soldiers, Columbia University-educated, Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha has made a film that will stick in the craw of hardliners.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
Bacha's film has a naive charm that fits well with the simple goals of the people, who were just asking that they be allowed to continue raising their kids and making a living in the place where they grew up.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Uncertain which approach to use, the filmmakers try a little of everything: sit-down interviews, in-the-moment footage, sentimental close-ups. A patient, on-the-ground approach would mostly have sufficed. But the movie is fascinating anyway.
Boston Phoenix
Gerald Peary
Simply shot and straightforward in its argument, this film from Brazilian documentarian Julia Bacha is an agitprop rallying cry for Palestinians living in the West Bank's Occupied Territories.
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Louis Proyect
A superlative introduction to the realities of Palestinian suffering and resistance.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
For those who despair of ever seeing peace in the Middle East, Budrus offers both sobering and cheering evidence that progress is possible.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
What's most gratifying about Budrus is that the film enables us to feel some of the same emotions the participants experienced.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Budrus is passionately, more-than-competently made, but it's a civics lesson that doesn't quite shake you to your core.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Closely follows remarkable story, from many viewpoints, of [a] community . . . creat[ing] an unusual paradigm for nonviolent protest . . .where most think that's impossible.
New York Times
Mike Hale
Engrossing and sometimes inspiring...
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A brave and illuminating documentary about a landmark 2003 nonviolent protest movement in a small Palestinian town against Israel's Separation Barrier.
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
The little-told story of a small but growing nonviolent opposition movement among rural West Bank Palestinians gets an airing in Julia Bachas mostly fair-minded documentary.
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