Habibi
Habibi is the chronicle of a love story set in one of the longest and most complicated contemporary conflicts, the Israeli-Palestinian war.
The Palestinian prisoners’ wives have turned to sperm’s smuggling in order to conceive children from their husbands who are serving long-term sentences in Israeli jails. Around 7,000 Palestinians are detained, with nearly 1,000 facing sentences of 20 years or more.
In the last 7 years, according to the Razan Hospital in Nablus which provides in vitro fertilization treatments in West Bank, around 100 babies have been born.
This area too often is shown only as a place of war and conflict, full of contrast, soldiers, military actions and weapons. Habibi, in Arabic means “my love”, tries to show the impact of the conflict on Palestinian families analyzing the difficulties faced in preserving their human dignity and trying to understand the reality hidden behind the war.
The Palestinian prisoners’ wives have turned to sperm’s smuggling in order to conceive children from their husbands who are serving long-term sentences in Israeli jails. Around 7,000 Palestinians are detained, with nearly 1,000 facing sentences of 20 years or more.
In the last 7 years, according to the Razan Hospital in Nablus which provides in vitro fertilization treatments in West Bank, around 100 babies have been born.
This area too often is shown only as a place of war and conflict, full of contrast, soldiers, military actions and weapons. Habibi, in Arabic means “my love”, tries to show the impact of the conflict on Palestinian families analyzing the difficulties faced in preserving their human dignity and trying to understand the reality hidden behind the war.