Ari Folman's life becomes a nightmare when he sets out to reconstruct the events of one night twenty years earlier when, as an Israeli soldier in September 1982, he witnessed the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians by Christian militia members at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut.
A coming-of-age story told by eight-year-old Ruba who lives with her family in a small Christian village outside of Beirut during the 1982 Israeli invasion.
Examines Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, Lebanese factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and other issues of the Middle East.
Examines Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, Lebanese factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and other issues of the Middle East.