
With the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, Precious Life chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. Each must face their most profound biases as they inch towards a possible friendship in an impossible reality.... (Full plot summary below)
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With the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, Precious Life chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. Each must face their most profound biases as they inch towards a possible friendship in an impossible reality.
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| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerPrecious Life, the story of Mohammad, a Gazan infant who is given life-saving treatment in an Israeli hospital, is full of profound paradoxes. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Cara NashEye-opening and often devastating, this documentary challenges audiences to confront and question their own biases and assumptions. |
| sbs.com.auSimon FosterThe thematic dimensions of its hostile locale are gripping, but the heart of the film belongs to a little boy. It is his struggle, and not those over borders and ideologies, that emerges as the most crucial. |
| Movie DearestFr. Chris CarpenterExtraordinary...provides a gripping, intimate perspective on the ages-old conflict between Jews and Palestinians... Powerful stuff. |
| User ReviewOfir SAs an Israeli, who got the talk to the movie maker after watching it, I relate to it (Or disagree) on so many levels. Great film. |
| User ReviewEric BThis is a fascinating documentary on how medicine and a child's health can transcend politics and war. I found it fascinating how the filmmaker (an Israeli journalist) gradually changed through the course of the movie. He started by telling the story fairly objectively, then clearly became more and more involved emotionally in the lives of this child and family. I strongly recommend watching this film! |
| User ReviewJohn BBeautiful film that provides the strange complications of the Arab Israeli conflict. Israeli doctors fight to raise money for treatment for a young Palestinian boy with an auto immune deficiency. The funding is provided by a person whose son has been killed by a suicide bomber. The mother holds open the possibility that the boy himself may end up as a suicide bomber. Complicated and not easy to comprehend. |
| User ReviewMatthew LA documentary about a 4.5 month old Palestinian baby with an immune deficiency disorder who is able to receive a bone marrow transplant thanks to the donation of an anonymous Israeli donor. The medical story itself was very captivating, but the tensions between the two sides/religions made the movie even more inspiring. |