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500 Dunam on the Moon
Rachel Leah Jones, Palestine/Israel/France/US, documentary, 48 min., 2002
(Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles)
Canadian Premiere
 Ayn Hawd is a centuries old Arab village that was captured and depopulated by Israeli forces in the 1948 war, following the establishment of the State of Israel. In 1953, Marcel Janco, a Romanian painter and a founder of the Dada movement, participated in transforming the village into an Israeli artists' colony, and renamed it Ein Hod. This poignant documentary about dispossession tells the story of the village's original inhabitants who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away in the outlying hills and those that ended in the refugee camps of Jenin in the Occupied Territories.. – C.T.P
Rachel Leah Jones completed her degree at Evergreen College and went on to obtain her MFA in Media Arts Production at the City University of New York. Rachel has worked as a producer and assistant director on numerous documentaries in Jerusalem, where she was also worked at the Alternative Information Center; a joint Palestinian-Israeli Organization. 500 Dunam on the Moon is her directorial debut.
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