Dissolves

1988

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Overview

In December 1987, the (first) Palestinian Intifada broke out and the Occupied Territories were set alight with a mass wave of demonstrations, protesting the ongoing Israeli occupation – the largest scale, longest-running ones seen in the area since 1967. The IDF was sent in to quash the uprising and before long, TV screens across the country were inundated with footage of burning tyres, stones thrown about, and baton-wielding Israeli soldiers chasing after teens and children. In the face of this new reality that made the question of the Occupied Territories the single most pressing issue of the time, the Jerusalem Film Festival went ahead and commissioned the following project. The result is a classic, Heffner-esque film – an intelligent labyrinth containing the most fundamental of Israeli tropes: The Holocaust; Arabs; us vs. them – all of which find themselves clashing and intermingling, and ultimately rendering the viewers helpless and cringing with awkwardness.

Status: Released

Language: HE

Production Information

Production Companies

Israel Film Archive Jerusalem Cinemateque

Production Countries

Israel

Spoken Languages

Hebrew

Quick Facts

Original Title	מה קרה?
Release Date	January 1, 1988
Status	Released
Language	HE

Cast

Aliza Rosen

Ilan Dar

Yoav Goren

Yitzhak Laor

Key Crew

Avraham Heffner

Director

Effi Atad

Producer

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