House

Exploring the history of a house in East Jerusalem as a microcosm for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the first film, "House" (1980), a Euro-Israeli professor has purchased the house from an aging Algerian-Israeli couple. An Israeli contractor rehabs the house with Palestinian laborers. Meanwhile, the filmmakers seek out the house's pre- 1948 owner. Produced and then censored by Israeli television, House was saved from the dustbin of history by its director, Amos GITAI.