The Do Gooders
British documentary filmmaker Chloe Ruthven’s grandparents were aid workers in Palestine. Growing up, she had avoided getting too involved in the subject, recalling how mention of the country made all the adults in her life angry. In her forties, after revisiting her grandmother’s book on the subject, she starts to research a documentary on the effects of foreign aid in the area and is shocked at the continued reliance on it there. Along the way she meets Lubna, a Palestinian woman who acts as her driver and fixer, and who is fiercely critical of Western aid efforts in her country. What begins as a quest to better understand her family history turns into a deeply emotional account of two women trying to understand one another. Ruthven’s determination to focus her film on deeply subjective analysis results in a unique joining of the acutely personal and complexly political. (Source: LFF programme)
Year: 2013
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Roast Beef Productions
Director: Chloe Ruthven
Cast:
Crew: Chloe Ruthven (Producer), Chloe Ruthven (Director), Mike Lerner (Producer), Chloe Ruthven (Writer)
Runtime: 75 minutes
Release: Oct 10, 2013
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Popularity: 0
Country: United Kingdom, Palestinian Territory
Language: English, العربية
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : woman director
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