Goethe-Institut Bangladesh will show an Award-winning film Muhi: Generally Temporary, directed by Rina Castelnuovo Hollander & Tamir Elterman, on the Vimeo platform today; Wednesday, April 22. And a direct link to the film will be published at 6:30 pm and will be available for 24hours.
After the screening, from about 8:30 pm BST, the producer of the film, Jörgen Kleinig from Germany will discuss the film in a live discussion on Facebook.
The film revolves around Muhi, caught between two homes and two fighting peoples, who is treated and raised by his people's enemy, surrounded by love that transcends identity, religion and the conflict that divides his world. As an infant, he is rushed to an Israeli hospital, his rare genetic condition is not treatable in Gaza's crumbing healthcare system. According to security regulations, he is accompanied only by his grandfather and both are confined for years to the hospital grounds. Muhi is watched over by an Israeli and a Palestinian, both men lost sons to conflict and war, while his parents are marooned in Gaza, an hour drive away. Muhi doesn't know his father and rarely sees his mother. To save Muhi's life, doctors had to amputate his arms legs and sections of his intestines. Muhi must remain in Israel for the care that keeps him alive.
Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander is an award-winning Israeli photojournalist, and a photographer for The New York Times for 25 years. Rina studied arts at Rome’s Academia de Belle Arti, where she began her career photographing for the Associated Press. She has been covering wars and peace, Israelis and Palestinians, for over three decades. Her work has been featured in international publications and worldwide exhibitions. This is her debut feature length documentary.
Tamir Elterman is an American documentarian and digital journalist published among others by The New York Times and Discovery. His short documentaries include Spring Chicken and Boys of Nizana. Tamir earned his Masters from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Anyone can click at Goethe-Institut Kolkata Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/goetheinstitut.Kolkata/ to participate in the open discussion.
