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Hopefully for the Best
Director
Raed Helou
Producer
Sura Media Production
Cinematographer
Raed Helou
Editor
Raed Helou
Contact
<p>Raed Helou
[email protected]</p>
Palestine, Palestine
42 min
Color
Director Raed Helou describes Ramallah during the tense winter before the US invasion of Iraq as “calm, like snow on graves, and angry as an old woman who has lost everything.” The curious monotony of life during an uprising is the subject of the peripatetic camera that roams the rain-slashed streets of Ramallah. In brief encounters with Ramallah’s street sweepers, bakers and hummus makers, anxiety simmers below the surface, but everyone seeks a bit of “normal” life in the early morning, before political realities take hold of the day.
Directors' Biography
<p>A native of Gaza, Raed Helou moved to the West Bank in 1994, living between Ramallah and Jerusalem. Mr. Helou began his career as a cameraman and has worked as a freelancer with most of Many Arab and foreign television stations, including al-Jazeera, Nile TV, BBC, Channel 4, SAT 1, TV 5. He has made a number of documentary films, including Gaza Tea Boy (1998) and Local (2002) with Ismail Habash and Imad Ahmed. Hopefully for the Best is Mr. Helou’s most recent film.</p>
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