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A City With No Pity
How would you feel returning to your hometown and discovering it’s become a center of drug-trafficking? How would you feel if you found out that your city has a 5,000 year-old history, most of it hidden underground? And what happens when the city’s everyday reality becomes a mirror image of life in the entire country? Tsipi Reibenbach left the city of Lydda/Lod in 1977, a war widow and mother to a little girl, and now returns to shoot a film about a city where Jews, Muslims and Christians live in a plethora of sounds and colors: the Muezzin’s call, the ringing of the church bells, and the bustling market. However, a violent and hostile urban ruin is now a surrealistic reality as Palestinian terrorism rises and Lydda/Lod, a city with no pity, becomes a microcosm of the conflicts and difficulties throughout Israel.
Festivals and Awards:
Berlinale Forum Selection, 2003; HotDocs Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2003; DocAviv International Film Festival, Israel, 2003; San Antonio Jewish Film Festival, 2010.
Director: Tsipi Reibenbach
Producer: Tsipi Reibenbach
Cinematographer: Nili Atslan, Ofer Harari, Dani Barnea, Ron Apter, Haim Tabak, Guy Refael
Editor: Stefany Abramovitch, Rivka Yogev
Supporter(s): A production of "the Joint Social Fund" established by NFCT and The Second Television and Radio Authority
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: עיר ללא רחמים
Relevant Links:
Director's websiteCategory: Israeli Society / Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Minorities / Religion
Tag Words: Christians drug trafficking Jews Lod Memories Microcosm Muslims poverty
How would you feel returning to your hometown and discovering it’s become a center of drug-trafficking? How would you feel if you found out that your city has a 5,000 year-old history, most of it hidden underground? And what happens when the city’s everyday reality becomes a mirror image of life in the entire country? Tsipi Reibenbach left the city of Lydda/Lod in 1977, a war widow and mother to a little girl, and now returns to shoot a film about a city where Jews, Muslims and Christians live in a plethora of sounds and colors: the Muezzin’s call, the ringing of the church bells, and the bustling market. However, a violent and hostile urban ruin is now a surrealistic reality as Palestinian terrorism rises and Lydda/Lod, a city with no pity, becomes a microcosm of the conflicts and difficulties throughout Israel.
Festivals and Awards:
Berlinale Forum Selection, 2003; HotDocs Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2003; DocAviv International Film Festival, Israel, 2003; San Antonio Jewish Film Festival, 2010.
Relevant Links:
Director's websiteDirector: Tsipi Reibenbach
Producer: Tsipi Reibenbach
Cinematographer: Nili Atslan, Ofer Harari, Dani Barnea, Ron Apter, Haim Tabak, Guy Refael
Editor: Stefany Abramovitch, Rivka Yogev
Supporter(s): A production of "the Joint Social Fund" established by NFCT and The Second Television and Radio Authority
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: עיר ללא רחמים
Category: Israeli Society / Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Minorities / Religion
Tag Words: Christians drug trafficking Jews Lod Memories Microcosm Muslims poverty