House

Amos Gitai became one of the first Israeli filmmakers to confront the implications of the 1948 war on Palestinians in this 1980 documentary, the story of a West Jerusalem abode owned by a Palestinian family that was requisitioned by the Israeli government after the war. Controversial at the time of its release, House was initially banned from transmission on Israeli Television, which helped produce it. This is the first part of Gitai's House trilogy, which continues with A HOUSE IN JERUSALEM (1998) and 2005's NEWS FROM HOME/NEWS FROM HOUSE.