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Atash [DVD] [2005]

Hussein Yassin Mahajne , Amal Bweerat , Tawfik Abu Wael    Suitable for 12 years and over   DVD
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Hussein Yassin Mahajne, Amal Bweerat, Ruba Blal, Jamila Abu Hussein, Ahamed Abed Elrani
  • Directors: Tawfik Abu Wael
  • Writers: Tawfik Abu Wael
  • Producers: Avi Kleinberger, Baher Agbariya
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: Arabic
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Axiom Films
  • DVD Release Date: 24 July 2006
  • Run Time: 109 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000F9RAOU
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 76,338 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Debut film from Arab director Tawfik Abu Wael, the first feature by a Palestinian filmmaker to be funded by Israeli producers. Abu (Hussein Yassin Mahajne) and his family have settled in an isolated valley, and his tyrannical father Shukri (Amal Bweerat) rules the family home with an iron fist. But when he decides to build a water pipeline for his family, it awakens in them their desire for freedom, with tragic results.

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Arabic ( Dolby Surround ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Short Film, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: A family of five, their two goats and donkey live in the middle of nowhere far from their village home. They earn meager living by producing & selling charcoal, made from the surrounding trees. The father and son are the only ones who ever return to their native village. The Mother & two daughters have not left this place since the day they abandoned home, 10 years ago. One day the father decides to provide running water for the family by illegally diverting water onto their land. The three women recoil from the idea but the teenage son obeys submissively anything to be allowed to continue attending school. The water surging through the pipe parallels the surging resentment the family feels towards the father. He brought them to this place against their will and they know the reason they left their home is also the reason they can never return, but the newly free-flowing water on their land re-awakens the instinctive desire for freedom they have been repressing all these years. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, ...Thirst ( Tzimaon ) ( Atash )

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
There are times when you watch a film from a debut director, not knowing what to expect, and are blown away by the raw talent that they display. This was certainly my experience after having watched Atash (Arabic for Thirst.) It is a seriously good film. The birth story of the film is a complex one, beset by loads of production problems, political difficulties (it is the first film ever to be directed by an Arab and produced by an Israeli), and casting issues (the majority of the cast is from a local village and are untrained actors.) Yet, what emerges is a distinctly powerful piece of cinema.

One would expect a film made by an Isralei and Arab to be about the conflict, but refreshingly this film isn't. It is much more focused on Palestinian patriarchal society, and the reality of community disapproval in the rural Arab village.

The fact that the story is not dominated by the conflict allows it to broach other important issues in the middle east, like water scarecity. Much of the film is about the importance of water, and humans' need to have protected sources to secure their livelihoods and families. All very interesting and important stuff.

I would strongly recommend this film to everybody. It is important for all of us to see such an interesting talent emerge who is willing to take risks to make himself heard.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The charcoal burners 1 Sep 2009
By technoguy TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
Atash (Thirst) , an extraordinary accomplished first film by the Arab-Israeli director Tawfik Abu Wael(2004), is set in the arid wasteland of the Palestinian desert, where an Old Testament father(Hussain Yassin Mahajne) and his family(wife,2 daughters and son)eke out a living from making charcoal.To do this the family have to saw down ,chop up trees from prohibited woods and burn the logs in pyres. The family have a scandal in their past whereby one daughter was molested or raped,so they have to live some miles from the nearest Palestinian village, due to the patriarchal values that dominate.The father rules the roost and is mean and begrudging of his children's needs, watching them with a hawk's eye. The mother and children have to help him with the charcoal burning,the fetching of water(heavy work) and the growing of plants for food. He deprives his son of his schooling and makes him workfor him,kicking over a water cistern when he escapes to school one day.The shamed daughter is maltreated and kept locked up whenever possible.She is deprived of luxuries like good clothes. He hoards his money but instead of spending it on the children he uses a lot to lay a pipe-line up into the hills so they can have running water. However due to the pipe being attacked and bursting one day they have to take turns lodging in a makeshift lean-to in the hills with a fire to guard against marauders. The son is often bullied by other boys on the way home from school and the donkey has graffiti scribbled on its sides due to the family's shame.Convincingly performed by a non-professional cast and shot with stark beautyby Asaf Sudry, especially the elemental scenes of fire,it's a claustrophobic tale of family tensions,with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict looming darkly.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Atash DVD 14 April 2011
Format:DVD
This film has subtitles and is a story about a family who appear to be living a sort of exiled life outside of a village in a property that doesn't belong to them. They live in fear of being discovered living there, but have nowhere else to go. It is a film about oppression and abuse of women and family by men, but also shows what can happen when the rest of the family cannot tolerate the situation. It is an interesting film of a glimpse of the kind of life people in the west could not tolerate, and worth watching. I would give this film a 6 out of 10.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Slow, but quietly gripping. 21 July 2010
Format:DVD
This is one of those Palestinian films, like Elia Suleiman's, that's quite art-house-y. Although it takes some time to get going, it moves along very quietly and beautifully conveys the bleakness of life in the few empty parts of Palestine.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Faulty 1 Feb 2012
By CW
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
DVD received faulty and did not work in any players. Very expensive for this. I did not know how to return it.
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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars This DVD was a no show 16 Jan 2011
Format:DVD
We were looking forward to watching this DVD based on the various reviews.

Unfortunately, the DVD bought from Amazon, would not play in our DVD player- we live in South Africa and are able to watch Region 2 DVDs. The DVD player gave different messages, either 'disc error' or 'no disc'.

We then tried to play the DVD on the desk top computer, which can play DVDs regardless of region encoding and again we received the error messages. Clearly something is wrong with the copy of the DVD we received as it would not play in two separate devices.

By the time we came to try and watch the DVD the 30 day return period had just passed and we are now stuck with a dud DVD.
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