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Frontiers
of Dreams and Fears
Mai Masri
Award-winning
Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri's most recent
work traces the delicate friendship that
evolves between two Palestinian girls: Mona,
a resident of the economically marginalized
Beirut refugee camp and Manar, an occupant
of Bethlehem's Al-Dheisha camp under Israeli
control.
The two girls
begin and continue their relationship through
letters until they are finally given the
opportunity to meet at the border during
the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon.
When the intifada suddenly erupts around
them, both girls face heart-breaking changes
in their lives.
As in Masri's
earlier films, Children of Shatila (1998)
and Children of Fire (1990), Frontiers of
Dreams and Fears focuses on the difficult
plight of Palestinian children while exhibiting
an optimism that defies their unbearable
circumstances.
Reviews
"Frontiers
of Dreams and Fears exhibits an
optimism that cuts through the cynicism
of minds numbed by too much faceless violence
on the evening news. Rather than despair,
its emotional foundation is hope."
- Jim Quilty, Daily Star, Lebanon
Other films by Mai Masri
Children of Shatila
Children of Fire
Hanan Ashrawi: A Woman of Her Time
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