Palestine film for debt repayment

Alberto Acre and Maria Moreno directed the short film Internationals in Palestine, which studied the International Solidarity Movement where foriegners come to the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza Strip to take part in non-violence resistance to the Israeli Occupation.

They also offer a kind of macabre protection for Palestinians: being foriegners, usually European, they are less likely to be shot and killed.

It's a digital democracy, Acre said.

Unlike the rest of the group, Acre and Moreno said they were not filmmakers, even though a previous documentary won an award at the Cuban Film Festival.

"We are not filmmakers. We are part of the resistance against Israel's Occupation. We have a hot camera, it's not the quality that moves us but the human story. We hold a camera in one hand and fight with the other against the aparthied wall [the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank]."

Acre said what motivated the pair was a debt they felt they owed to those who fought for Spain during the Spanish civil war.

"We must help because of our tradition. In the civil war against the facists, more than 70,000 people came to Spain to fight for Spanish freedom."

They said people had to do the job governments wouldn't, through digital democracy.

"Through a film you can show that governments won't help, so people must."

Journalists questioned the pair about how much they could show through a short film.

Moreno said they were offering people another choice.

"In Spain there are stereotypes of the Palestinian problem. There is a bombing in Tel Aviv. We are showing another kind of Palestinian resistance. People are being oppressed and punished because of this non-violent resistance."