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Slingshot Hip Hop
Jackie Salloum
2008, DVD, 94 min.Arabic, English & Hebrew
Subtitles available in English, Arabic, French

Official Selection at Sundance, Best Director at Beirut International Film Festival, Audience Award at Films de Femmes Festival, and Awarded at the Festival des Libertes.

"Profoundly uplifting... Its a refreshing take on the conflict" - Now Toronto

"The Culture of Hip Hop and Rap is at its most powerful and yet its most tender in Slingshot Hip Hop" - Chuck D, Public Enemy

Slingshot Hip Hop weaves together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank, and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmont divisions imposted by occupation and poverty.

Follow DAM - the first ever Palestinian Hip Hop group from their early years to their world wide success. Through DAM we meet Mahmoud Shalabi, an irreverent rapper from Akka, along with R&B singer Abeer and rap duo Arapeyat, rising female artists determinded to express themselves. And trapped within Gaza the rap group PR have begun emulating DAM to protest their own terrible conditions

Click here to see the trailer here!

List Price: $25
AET Price: $20