Chicago Tribune film reviews for CPFF 2007

In Friday's Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips gave positive reviews of two of our films. Check out the story Palestinian film fest offers 13 days of thought-provoking fare.

Leila Khaled, Hijacker ★★★
Encounter Point ★★★½

Leila Khaled, Hijacker ★★★

Those who resist diary-form docs, where the interviewer is half the story, may well resist this one. For me, it works. The filmmaker's conflicted feelings regarding her subject feel honest, and the result is neither idolatry nor fallen-idolatry.

Encounter Point ★★★½

Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha's moving account follows various Palestinian and Israeli activists who have lost sons or daughters to the violence in Bethlehem, in Tel Aviv, in too many other places. "I don't have to love Israelis to make peace with them," says one Palestinian. The mother of a dead Israeli soldier wonders what to do with her pain. Exact revenge? "Or do you choose another path?"