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Wait for Me The War of 33
documentar
3 minutes a73 2008 a73 USA a73 In Competition 33 minutes a73 2007 a73 USA/Lebanon a73 In Competition
Thursday 6:20p
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Saturday 12:20p Thursday 6:40p
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Saturday 9:40p
Plays with: Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi (p18) Plays with: Ask Not (p18)
Director: Ross Kauffman a73 Producers: Ross Kauffman, Jeremy Yaches a73 Cinematographers: Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Richard Rowley a73 Principal Cast: Hanady Salman a73
Ross Kauffman, Erik Messerschmidt a73 Editor: Jeremiah Zagar a73 Music/Composer:
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EFTERKLANG a73 Principal Cast: Peg Dreyfous a73
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In this powerful story of the 2006 war in Lebanon, a series of
In 1984, John Ewing Dreyfous departed on a soulful quest by letters written by a mother living through continuous Israeli
bicycle across southern Europe eastwards, into India. He was bombing carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting
24. Since he vanished into the rugged foothills of the images of conflict. As she publishes the stories and pictures of
Himalayas, his mother has kept a patient vigil that over more children and families torn apart by the bombing, she writes about
than two-decades has become a spiritual journey of her own. her own daughter—her fears, nightmares, and hope. More than a
Kauffman was co-director of the 2005 Academy Award-winner document of a particular historical experience, what emerges is a
for Best Documentary Feature, Born into Brothels (2005 AIFF). universal story-– a complex picture of love, pain, resistance and
survival in the face of uncertainty and
Ross Kauffman violence. [subtitles, violence]
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Director’s Statement
Richard Rowley
I have known the Dreyfous family since
Director’s Statement
2003. I had the good fortune to spend an
afternoon with John’s mother, Peg. Peg’s In the end, Hanady’s writing keeps her
combination of beauty, sadness and hope alive—it is not just therapy, it is a way for her
immediately drew me back in. We sat down to not be powerless in the face of incalculable
and talked for hours about John, her family, violence and loss. As an American—as someone who has been
and her dream to one day see her missing son again. Walking made an accomplice in the massive criminal violence of the war in
away from the conversation, I distinctly recall the emergence of Lebanon—this film is also an attempt to not be powerless and
an exciting, nervous and altogether frightening feeling—I knew complicit. Hanady’s writing is a beautiful, human response to an
then that I had to tell Peg’s story. inhuman system. We aspired to make a film in that same spirit.
Filmography: Born into Brothels (2005 AIFF) Filmography: Black and Gold, Fourth World War, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Zapatista
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