• Title:
• Nine Star Hotel

• Director:
• Ido Haar

• Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles

• Israel, 78 minutes

• Venue:
• Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

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Filmmaker Ido Haar's parents live in the central Israeli town where he remembers seeing "a line of desperate males dashing across the highway...and I wanted to find out why are they running." This powerful vérité film, more personal than political, explores the relationships that form between a group of Palestinian men working illegally in Israel. Building luxury condominiums by day, and hiding in makeshift tents to avoid the authorities at night, they share food, bond and, over the course of four years, grow from boys into men.

Winner, Best Social Documentary, Shangai International Film Festival.

Co-sponsored by the DC Labor Film Festival

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