Anne Frank, Then and Now

A docudrama. It explores the lives of Anne Frank and the eight Palestinian girls cast to play her in a retelling of Frank’s famous diary. The film was shooting in Gaza in July when the Zuk Eitan war broke out. The poised and pensive girls seen here alternate between reciting moving passages from Frank’s diary and commenting on such related topics as love, religion and war from a contemporary Muslim perspective. The uneasy state of Israeli-Palestinian relations, occasionally underscored by pointed local imagery, informs these often heartfelt chats. This film and it's director are both controversial.