NewFilmmakers at Anthology Film Archives presents
a Palestinian activist’s fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.
“Amazing...now that is what I call a ‘real’ documentary. An exposé of the first order.” -- Satsuki Ina, director, Children of the Camps & From a Silk Cocoon
"Enemy Alien is a must-see documentary! The filmmaker crosses boundaries and prison walls to tell the story of this peaceful Palestinian freedom fighter…a powerful and often scary real-life tale of the shared struggle between Japanese Americans and Muslim Americans." --Basim Elkarra, Executive Director, CAIR-Sacramento
Documentary, 2011, 82 minutes
A project of Life or Liberty
Directed by Konrad Aderer
Sneak Preview! After showing as a work-in-progress at community screenings, the film is about to be released as a film festival offering and distributed by Third World Newsreel.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
9:30 p.m.
NewFilmmakers
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave & 2nd Street, Manhattan
Subway F to 2nd Ave.; B,D,Q to Broadway-Lafayette St.; 6 to Bleecker
$6 admission
Enemy Alien, a first-person documentary, is the gripping story of the fight to free Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a gentle but indomitable Palestinian-born human rights activist detained in a post-9/11 sweep of Muslim immigrants. Told through the eyes of the filmmaker, the grandson of Japanese Americans interned during World War II, this documentary takes on unprecedented intimacy and historical resonance.
As the filmmaker confronts his own family legacy of incarceration, his involvement in the current struggle deepens. Resistance brings consequences: In retaliation for organizing a massive protest from inside detention, Farouk is beaten and locked in solitary confinement, and his American-born son Tarek is arrested in a counterterrorism investigation into the documentary itself.
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