72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Make Hummus Not War

Trevor Graham
Australia      80 m.
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Could a regional love of hummus be the recipe for peace in the Middle East? This was the question on director Trevor Graham’s mind when he set out to film this documentary about the Middle Eastern conflict you don’t see on the nightly news. This is Graham’s humorous journey though the hummus bars and kitchens of Beirut, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and New York. Along the way he encounters the doyenne of Middle East cuisine Claudia Roden, zealots, Jewish settlers, biblical characters, political activists, chickpea farmers, novelists and Sheiks, for whom hummus is a near religious obsession.

Director
Trevor Graham
Screenplay
Trevor Graham
Production
Yarra Bank Films Pty Ltd (Australia)
Trevor Graham, Ned Lander
Photography
Jenni Meaney
Edition
Denise Haslem
Music
David Bridie
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
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Herengracht 105-107 1015 BE Amsterdam
Running Time
80 m.
Country
Australia
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