News from Home/News from House

2006. Israel. Directed by Amos Gitai. With News from Home/News from House, Gitai completes a trilogy that began with House (1980) and continued with A House in Jerusalem (1998). This film explores the relationships among a West Jerusalem house's past and present inhabitants, and between Israelis and Palestinians in a society where displacement is the norm. Abandoned in 1948 by its original owner, a Palestinian doctor, the house was later requisitioned by the Israeli government and has been home to Jewish-Algerian immigrants and a university professor, among others. In Hebrew, Arabic; English subtitles. 97 min.