PARADISE LOST

Special Guest, Ryme Katkhouda, co-founder of the dc-radio-coop Senior Producer and trainer at WPFW 89.3FM, Exec. Prod. of Voices With Vision One of the few Arab villages remaining after the 1948 War, Paradise became culturally and politically isolated as Jewish settlements sprang up around it In Paradise Lost, Arab-Israeli filmmaker Ebtisam Mara’ana attempts to recreate the lost history of her village. Yet she is met with strong resistance and is warned not to become like Suaad, the infamous village bad-girl who was seen as a threat and imprisoned as a PLO activist in the 1970s. The director seeks out her childhood hero, Suaad George, now a Doctor of Law in the UK, but finds her still haunted by her village and past. (Palestine/Israel, 56 min., color, 2003,
Director: Ebtisam Mara’ana)