Ehab Tarabieh
Directing
Biography
Ehab Tarabieh (1982) was born in Syria, where he studied violin at the academy of music. He then moved to the Czech Republic for a while and devoted himself to filmmaking. In 2010, he started working at the B´Tselem Centre and coordinated the shooting of an amateur film about the violation of human rights and freedoms under the Israeli occupation. see: https://dafilms.com/director/11038-ehab-tarabieh#:~:text=Ehab%20Tarabieh%20(Syria),and%20devoted%20himself%20to%20filmmaking.
Known For
Forty-five years after he was expelled from his village in the Syrian Golan Heights, Mustafa steals across the Israeli border with the help of a local smuggler. This is a one-way trip for Mustafa, as he contemplates the end of his life.
The Forgotten
In the Druze mountain villages between Syria and Israel, Kamel, a respected sheik, must make an impossible decision between family and duty when his estranged brother returns to the Golan Heights after 47 years in exile.
The Taste of Apples Is Red
In 2007, the human rights organisation B’tselem launched a project consisting of providing video cameras and training to Palestinian volunteers in the West Bank to document their lives under Israeli occupation. Made up of many short films, Of Land and Bread is a film of painful eloquence.