Promises

This documentary film features seven Israeli and Palestinian children from east and west Jerusalem. Each child offers a dramatic, emotional and at times hilarious perspective into issues that are at the heart of the Middle East conflict. The film explores the boundaries that lie between these children living no more than 20 minutes apart, but locked in separate worlds, and tells the stoy of a few who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbours.
Between the ages of 8 and 13, this is an age group that rarely speaks for itself. Neither as self-conscious as teenagers nor as polite as adults, they speak without self-censorship, and have an acute awareness of the political reality that surrounds them.

Winner of the Canal+ Audience Award at the 2001 Rotterdam Film Festival