Tears of Gaza Showing Thursday, March 20, in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer] Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a record—presented with minimal gloss—of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military (with overwhelming approval and support of Israelis).  Norwegian director Vibeke Løkkeberg uses local Palestinian crews to provide footage of a Palestinian reality largely unseen by the Western media. Løkkeberg’s film tracks the everyday existence of a people living in a city ill-prepared to cope with a tragedy of such scale; it captures the stories of three children surviving in Gaza's impoverished infrastructure. "Few antiwar films register with the disturbing immediacy and visceral terror of Tears of Gaza. Almost purely observational, "Tears" doesn't take sides as much as obliterate politics: the bullet holes in the 2-year-olds did not arrive by accident... The inherent cruelty of so much of the action, committed against civilians with very little infrastructure, services or commercial goods, much less equipment to fight fires, comes through loud and clear... Production values are good overall, but the cinematography is the standout..." ~ John Anderson, Variety “We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure Including roads and water” ~ Eli Yishai, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, 2001 "The UN has repeatedly found Israeli’s actions in Gaza to be a war crime.  [destroying infrastructure, targeting civilians, using indiscriminate force, using incendiary devices - white phosphorus ...]  ~Washington's blog Excerpt from the film's press kit (everyone at the screening gets a copy - while they last): Tears of Gaza demands that we examine the costs of war on a civilian populace. The result is horrifying, gut‐wrenching and unforgettable. THE MAKING OF “TEARS OF GAZA” The story of how the filmmakers made a film in Gaza without being allowed to cross the border. One night 2008 while watching the news on television, Vibeke Løkkeberg saw a story about a boy crying after his father was killed during an Israeli bombing in Gaza. Although the international press was not allowed into Gaza, she had been able to follow the bombings on TV. Løkkeberg was shocked that the world media did not work to do a better job to cover the attacks on civilians in a densely populated region with no place for them to escape. It reminded her of the US invasion of Iraq which was reported from a distance. The public was not allowed to see any war footage ‐ the damage, violence and victims of the attacks. Seeing the boy crying made Løkkeberg angry. She felt rage because of the devastation and the killing of innocent women and children. Løkkeberg decided then that she needed to break through the wall of silence. She wanted to get to know the people of Gaza and meet the women and children who are the victims of war. Løkkeberg felt that the population was being stigmatized as terrorists, yet these were ordinary man, women and children like her own family.... And while they last, you also get a free copy of Remember These Children [thanks to Bob Cable!] When/where doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm 243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor rule19.org/videos Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! free film & free door prizes[donations are encouraged]feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed "You can't legislate good will - that comes through education." ~ Malcolm X UPandOUT film series - see rule19.org/videos Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights... Tears of Gaza Showing Thursday, March 20, in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer] Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a record—presented with minimal gloss—of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military (with overwhelming approval and support of Israelis).  Norwegian director Vibeke Løkkeberg uses local Palestinian crews to provide footage of a Palestinian reality largely unseen by the Western media. Løkkeberg’s film tracks the everyday existence of a people living in a city ill-prepared to cope with a tragedy of such scale; it captures the stories of three children surviving in Gaza's impoverished infrastructure. "Few antiwar films register with the disturbing immediacy and visceral terror of Tears of Gaza. Almost purely observational, "Tears" doesn't take sides as much as obliterate politics: the bullet holes in the 2-year-olds did not arrive by accident... The inherent cruelty of so much of the action, committed against civilians with very little infrastructure, services or commercial goods, much less equipment to fight fires, comes through loud and clear... Production values are good overall, but the cinematography is the standout..." ~ John Anderson, Variety “We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure Including roads and water” ~ Eli Yishai, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, 2001 "The UN has repeatedly found Israeli’s actions in Gaza to be a war crime.  [destroying infrastructure, targeting civilians, using indiscriminate force, using incendiary devices - white phosphorus ...]  ~Washington's blog Excerpt from the film's press kit (everyone at the screening gets a copy - while they last): Tears of Gaza demands that we examine the costs of war on a civilian populace. The result is horrifying, gut‐wrenching and unforgettable. THE MAKING OF “TEARS OF GAZA” The story of how the filmmakers made a film in Gaza without being allowed to cross the border. One night 2008 while watching the news on television, Vibeke Løkkeberg saw a story about a boy crying after his father was killed during an Israeli bombing in Gaza. Although the international press was not allowed into Gaza, she had been able to follow the bombings on TV. Løkkeberg was shocked that the world media did not work to do a better job to cover the attacks on civilians in a densely populated region with no place for them to escape. It reminded her of the US invasion of Iraq which was reported from a distance. The public was not allowed to see any war footage ‐ the damage, violence and victims of the attacks. Seeing the boy crying made Løkkeberg angry. She felt rage because of the devastation and the killing of innocent women and children. Løkkeberg decided then that she needed to break through the wall of silence. She wanted to get to know the people of Gaza and meet the women and children who are the victims of war. Løkkeberg felt that the population was being stigmatized as terrorists, yet these were ordinary man, women and children like her own family.... And while they last, you also get a free copy of Remember These Children [thanks to Bob Cable!] When/where doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm 243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor rule19.org/videos Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! free film & free door prizes[donations are encouraged]feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed "You can't legislate good will - that comes through education." ~ Malcolm X UPandOUT film series - see rule19.org/videos Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights... Tears of Gaza Showing Thursday, March 20, in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer] Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a record—presented with minimal gloss—of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military (with overwhelming approval and support of Israelis).  Norwegian director Vibeke Løkkeberg uses local Palestinian crews to provide footage of a Palestinian reality largely unseen by the Western media. Løkkeberg’s film tracks the everyday existence of a people living in a city ill-prepared to cope with a tragedy of such scale; it captures the stories of three children surviving in Gaza's impoverished infrastructure. "Few antiwar films register with the disturbing immediacy and visceral terror of Tears of Gaza. Almost purely observational, "Tears" doesn't take sides as much as obliterate politics: the bullet holes in the 2-year-olds did not arrive by accident... The inherent cruelty of so much of the action, committed against civilians with very little infrastructure, services or commercial goods, much less equipment to fight fires, comes through loud and clear... Production values are good overall, but the cinematography is the standout..." ~ John Anderson, Variety “We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure Including roads and water” ~ Eli Yishai, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, 2001 "The UN has repeatedly found Israeli’s actions in Gaza to be a war crime.  [destroying infrastructure, targeting civilians, using indiscriminate force, using incendiary devices - white phosphorus ...]  ~Washington's blog Excerpt from the film's press kit (everyone at the screening gets a copy - while they last): Tears of Gaza demands that we examine the costs of war on a civilian populace. The result is horrifying, gut‐wrenching and unforgettable. THE MAKING OF “TEARS OF GAZA” The story of how the filmmakers made a film in Gaza without being allowed to cross the border. One night 2008 while watching the news on television, Vibeke Løkkeberg saw a story about a boy crying after his father was killed during an Israeli bombing in Gaza. Although the international press was not allowed into Gaza, she had been able to follow the bombings on TV. Løkkeberg was shocked that the world media did not work to do a better job to cover the attacks on civilians in a densely populated region with no place for them to escape. It reminded her of the US invasion of Iraq which was reported from a distance. The public was not allowed to see any war footage ‐ the damage, violence and victims of the attacks. Seeing the boy crying made Løkkeberg angry. She felt rage because of the devastation and the killing of innocent women and children. Løkkeberg decided then that she needed to break through the wall of silence. She wanted to get to know the people of Gaza and meet the women and children who are the victims of war. Løkkeberg felt that the population was being stigmatized as terrorists, yet these were ordinary man, women and children like her own family.... And while they last, you also get a free copy of Remember These Children [thanks to Bob Cable!] When/where doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm 243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor rule19.org/videos Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! free film & free door prizes[donations are encouraged]feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed "You can't legislate good will - that comes through education." ~ Malcolm X UPandOUT film series - see rule19.org/videos Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights...