FOURTEENTH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ![]()
UPROOTED WORLD PREMIERE: OCTOBER 5, 2006
NOMINATED FOR BEST DEBUT
Since the fall of Apartheid, Palestinian resitance to Israeli occupation is perhaps more widely documented than other anti-imperialist struggles but the result of Donia Mili’s enterprise in the occupied territories is well worth our undivided attention. read more...
STARZ FILM FESTIVAL 2006 ![]()
UPROOTED NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE: NOVEMBER 2006
NOMINATED FOR BEST DOC
What are the forms of resistance on the ground? What is it that the Palestinians are truly resisting? Should resistance be viewed and judged strictly on the basis of its violence or non-violence or would it be more appropriate to be evaluated on a contextual basis?

DOCUMENTA MADRID 2007 ![]()
UPROOTED EUROPEAN PREMIERE: MAY 2007
SPANISH SUBTITLED VERSION: DESARRAIGO
NOMINATED IN REPORTING COMPETITIVE SECTION
Donia Mili nos cuenta: “Después del 11-S, fui de Nueva York a Cisjordania y ofrecí mis servicios y experiencia al Servicio Internacional de Mujeres por la Paz (IWPS). No llegué a entender realmente la resistencia, a pesar de que era el foco central de mi película y de mi activismo, hasta que mi compromiso laboral con la IWPS casi había acabado.” read more...
Link: http://www.documentamadrid.com/
TEMA PALESTINA 2007 ![]()
OFFICIAL SELECTION APRIL 2007
Swedish Film Festival in Malmö, Sweden:
Tema Palestina 2007.
Links to Tema Palestina Festival:
MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK ![]()
MNN GUERRILLA FILMMAKERS SCREENING
UPROOTED, NEW YORK PREMIERE: DECEMBER 13, 2006
Featuring a hauntingly honest narration and striking imagery, the film is the work of self-proclaimed "guerrilla filmmaker," Donia Mili, who took up a camera for the first time in order to tell this important story.
Link: http://www.mnn.org/en/node/554
LA MARSEILLAISE ARTICLE IN FRENCH ABOUT THE MAKING OF UPROOTED
(PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER 2005 WHILE UPROOTED WAS IN PRODUCTION)
Une Marseillaise en territoire occupé...
BREATHING PLANET REVIEW OF UPROOTED
I saw a moving movie tonight. It was not the kind of movie that makes you cry or the kind that makes you angry. Yes... I was sad, and yes, I was upset, but more importantly, Uprooted made me think, question my philosophies, and fed me knowledge that i don't really have access too. read more...
Link: http://breathingplanet.net/node/39
FILM COMMUNE REVIEW:
WOMEN FILMMAKERS: VOICES FROM THE DARK
Second, Donia Mili's Uprooted (2006), expresses the internal struggle between violent and non-violent activism in the quest for Palestinian Liberation. read more...
Link: http://www.filmcommune.blogspot.com/
SUBJECTIVITY...
MIRADAS DE CINE Nº70 (ENERO 08)
REVIEW OF FILMMAKERS' STYLES IN SPANISH
...lo que propone es una estética existencial, semejante a la de algunos trabajos de Jem Cohen, Hrant Hakobyan, Donia Mili, Pierre-Marie Goulet o Georgi Lazarevski, que ponen de relieve cómo cada vez resulta más dificíl precisar la nacionalidad de ciertas películas, porque en lugar de responder a la realidad de una manera concreta y objetiva, responden a partir de una postura libre y subjetiva,...
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THOSE REVIEWS THAT HURT THE MOST...
Editor's Note: I think the subtitles in Spanish were confusing; indeed the film critic thought I did a bad job presenting the pacifist side in Uprooted?! The film review is in Spanish, and I am in no rush to translate it...
MIRADAS DE CINE Nº63 (JUNIO 07)
El hecho de que una película sobre el enfrentamiento entre Israel y Palestina, dado el recrudecimiento de una guerra que dura ya décadas, pueda resultarnos reiterativa y poco interesante es una realidad que debería darnos miedo.
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