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Ave Maria
Some difficult problems arise when Moshe, an Orthodox settler driving his family to their West Bank home on a late Friday afternoon, disables his car when he accidentally knocks over a statue of the Virgin Mary outside a Carmelite convent. Moshe can’t phone for help because Shabbat has just begun and the five Arab nuns in the convent can’t either because they live under a vow of silence. In this Oscar-nominated short, Palestinian filmmaker Basil Khalil casts a satirical eye on the Middle East conflict (avemariafilm.com).
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