Coffee: Between Reality and Imagination

Coffee: Between Reality and Imagination

2010 · 95 min · Drama, Comedy, Documentary

A cinematic collaboration between young Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, who together created a series of short films. Coffee takes part in our cultural identity, it is shared by all individuals in terms of our daily routine and pastes different people together, no matter who they are. Includes two documentaries and two fiction films made by Palestinian filmmakers, and four fiction films made by Israeli filmmakers. Each of the films gives a personal and courageous point of view on the reality in which we live in.

Directed by Gazi Abu Baker

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