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CHINMOKU WO YABURU (2009)

Original Title: Chinmoku wo Yaburu
English Title: Breaking The Silence
Genre: Documentary
Format: DVCAM / 130min / Color
Year of Production: 2009
Release Date (Japan): May 02, 2009
Production Company: Siglo, Ltd.
Director: Toshikuni Doi
Producers: Tetsujiro Yamagami
Screenplay: N/A
Director of Photography: N/A
Music: N/A
Main Cast: Yehuda Shaul , Avichay Sharon , Dotan Greenvald

Synopsis

Spring 2002. The Israeli army mounts an offensive against West Bank refugee camps in Jenin and Balata. Two years later, former Israeli soldiers open a photo exhibition called "Breaking the Silence" and openly discuss acts of aggression they committed in the occupied territories. Scenes of life and death in the refugee camps are interwoven with frank, soul-searching interviews with ex-soldiers about the dehumanizing effects of occupation. Palestinians, surviving seemingly hopeless oppression, and young Israelis, speaking out despite accusations of betrayal, the film transcends the frame of the Palestine-Israel problem to address, from multiple perspectives, a subject of universal significance.

About the Director

Journalist Doi Toshikuni was born in 1953 in Saga Prefecture, Japan. He first became involved with the Palestine-Israel problem in 1985. He has been filming in Palestine and Israel for 17 years, and, working with the Palestinian Documentary Society, completed the four-part Unheard Voices. Doi has produced numerous documentary programs for NHK and commercial television in Japan, including "Fallujah, April 2004." His many books (all in Japanese) include Palestine: Occupation and the People; The Jews of America; Palestine and the "Peace Agreement;" Palestinian Voices, Israeli Voices; and Breaking the Silence: Former Israeli Soldiers Discuss "Occupation."

Sales Company

Siglo, Ltd.
Contact: Naotaka Yanagawa
Email: yanagawa@cine.co.jp
Phone: +81-3-5343-3101
www.cine.co.jp

About the Sales Company

Siglo, Ltd. was established in 1986 as an independent film production company. The company's primary business is the planning and production of documentary and feature films. The company also purchases Japanese rights to a limited number of foreign films. Siglo, Ltd. has produced a total of more than 40 feature and documentary films, many of which have won awards at international film festivals.

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