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CHARLES COLEMAN
Film Programmer for Facets Cinémathèque

Read his feature in the Chicago Reader

September 2007

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.


Chicago Premiere

9 STAR HOTEL
(MALON 9 KOCHAVIM)

Just as Mexicans cross U.S. borders illegally to find work as day laborers, thousands of Palestinians do likewise, into neighboring Israel, seeking jobs in construction. Comically referred to as their "9 Star Hotel" , Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar gained the trust of a group of nomadic young men whom he observed fleeing from police, risking their lives to cross highways at night, sleeping in makeshift hovels - a dramatic contrast to the luxury housing they build by day. "We think backwards - we never think forward. We are like scavengers, like those who harvest olives after the locust," one of his subjects confesses with lyrical simplicity. This is a devastating cinema verité portrait of young men caught in an economic and political maelstrom not of their own making - their dreams subsumed by the hard reality of day-to-day survival. Says Haar, "...one of the hardest things in this film was to see young men with a passion for life and a lot of vitality, but a potential that is being suppressed at all times, not only by Israel, but by cultural concerns." (Film Forum)

Directed by Ido Haar, Israel, 2006, 35mm, 78 mins. In Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles.

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