Tears of Gaza

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Tears of Gaza

2010

1h 30m

Documentary

War

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The filmmaker exposes the brutal consequences of modern warfare.

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

This documentary's goals are noble ones, but its execution is something else again.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 20, 2012

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

A brutally uncompromising blast of outrage, Vibeke Lokkeberg's "Tears of Gaza" is less a documentary than a collage of suffering.

Rated: 5/5

Sep 18, 2012

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Chris Packham

Village Voice

The cameras linger on the faces of children as they tell their stories, unaffected and open.

Sep 18, 2012

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

The point made - and made clearly - is that war of any stripe is rarely balanced and never fair.

Mar 10, 2021

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

The Israeli military's murderous assault in December 2008-January 2009 on the Palestinian population of Gaza is the subject of a powerful documentary by Norwegian director Vibeke Løkkeberg.

Feb 13, 2021

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Regardless of intent, Tears of Gaza seems hopelessly biased and startlingly futile as we listen to small children that will nurse their burning hatred into a bitter adulthood.

Aug 5, 2019

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Long live Palestine!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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walter m

Definitely not for the squeamish, "Tears of Gaza" is a visceral documentary look at the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip in 2008 and 2009 that left thousands dead and injured. While I admire the documentary for bringing this human rights crisis to the attention of the outside world, that does not mean I do not have my share of qualms. That starts with the documentary failing to do an adequate job of capturing daily life in the state of siege in the occupied territory, with highly suspect editing being a main culprit.(For example, I would have loved a look inside one of the famed smugglers' tunnels.) Since this documentary is as subtle as some of the explosions, it should come as no surprise that it is interested in pushing as many emotional buttons as it can find. So much so, that it might even qualify as 'tragedy porn,' to borrow an episode title from the smart, witty and wise "The Newsroom." The problem here arises from focusing mainly on the harm done to children, as it suffers from 'child worship syndrome,' to quote Bill Hicks. That's not to mention the lack of context, without which one cannot speak to motive.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Funny...Everybody keeps saying this film is biased....Whether or not Hamas launched a missile into Israel doesn't make Israel's typical war aggression-style techniques any less damaging..

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

Utter and vapid anti Semitic crap.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Marcello De Francisci

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Mwafaq al Khateeb

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Synopsis

The filmmaker exposes the brutal consequences of modern warfare.

Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg
Genre: Documentary, War
Original Language: Arabic
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 29, 2015
Runtime: 1h 30m

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