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 Director Udi Aloni's "Junction 48" took the Panorama Audience
Award for best fiction film. The film "Who's Gonna Love Me Now?"
by Tomer and Barak Heymann was voted best Panorama documentary.
"Junction 48" tells the story of a Palestinian rap star and his
girlfriend who live near Tel Aviv in the mixed
Jewish-Palestinian city of Lod, known until recently as one of
the main drug-running centers of the Middle East.
Actress Samar Qupty said it should be easy for Palestinians to
identify with the movie, even though it depicts people living
lives that are radically different from strict Muslim
traditions.
Her character, for example, allows a picture of her face to be
used on a poster advertising a hip-hop concert, prompting
members of her family to say they plan to injure her if she
performs.
"It's still a revolutionary movie because it doesn't talk about
the way we Palestinians are usually represented in the world,"
Qupty said.
"We are representing ourselves by the new generation without
trying to prove anything to anyone, with our 'goods' and 'bads',"
she told Reuters in an interview.
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"We are trying to present what is the real new generation trying to
do without making the reality looking any better or any worse."
Director Aloni was pleased with audience reactions.
"We are all so optimistic because we also brought some young kids
that we gave them tickets, you know 20 years old, that don't know
anything about us and they adore it.
"So probably the choice of having Tamer, he is so charismatic, and
hip-hop that is so universal, it was a very good move."
Singer Nafar doesn't expect everybody in the Middle East to love the
film but he is confident it will open up a debate.
"It's going to open a stage and I think it's very important and the
movie is not here to give solutions, the movie is here to raise the
right questions," he said.
(Editing by Michael Roddy and Digby Lidstone)
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