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Game of Death & Survival

2 x 23" AlJazeera English

A two part documentary series where Basil Khalil, a young English-Irish-Israeli-Palestinian filmmaker, goes on a road-trip across Israel and the Palestinian territories, to look at the conflict from new eyes and gives us a rarely-seen insight into how people deal with the cycle of violence.

Basil Khalil

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Part One: Game of Death
Screened Monday 11th December, 2006

This is his first film, Basil investigates how Israelis and Palestinians are coping

Basil Khalil

with attack and counterattack, anger and revenge. He shows the 'normal' life
people experience during the constant violence in the occupied territories.

Basil speaks to an Israeli-American family that lost a daughter in a suicide
bombing, while he also meets the father of a young bomber, as well as a family
that almost lost a child to an explosion.

Behind this violence he finds compassion and humour — whether through
hardened Israelis and Palestinians, Israeli Army checkpoint soldiers, even his
own family. In an area often thought beyond reason, there is some rationality
in discussing that revenge does not necessarily have to be the answer.

Basil Khalil , Replay revenge

Part Two: Game of Survival
Screened Monday 18th December, 2006

This film looks at how Palestinians and Israelis try to cope with the situation.

Palestinians talk of the wall that separates them from their neighbours;
Israelis speak of what it’s like to take public transportation on bus routes that
have been bombed; Israeli students express how they wish things were
different, while landlocked Palestinians discuss their frustrations and hopes
for the future.

Basil Khalil’s cousin Johnny, from Nazareth, offers some words of wisdom
- somewhat pessimistic, while others in the area have thoughts of hope.

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