Length: 4-6 sentences per prompt
Step 1: Read the following questions before watching the documentary:
1.) In Ch. 9.1 the text suggests 7 important things we can do to reduce stereotyping and discrimination within relationships. Specifically with of these seven things do you think the main characters of the film used to reduce negative stereotypes of their peers? Please specifically link your answers to the content in Ch. 9.
2.) Reflecting on what we learned in Ch. 7.2 about ingroups and outgroups, how do those concepts reveal themselves in this particular film. In your answer please define the terms (ingroup and outgroup) in your own words.
3.) Many important conversations and interactions were featured in the film. Reflecting on Ch. 5.3, please share how time and space were factors in how the teenage girls communicated and worked through their cultural differences.
Step 2: Watch the documentary My So-Called Enemy: Celebrating Diversity, Interfaith and Intercultural Understanding (1hr 30min)Links to an external site.
**If the link does not work, the film can be found on the CRC Library Kanopy website.***
Description: A coming-of-age film about the vital role of listening and empathy in bridging bridges across personal, cultural, religious, political and gender divides.
In the spirit of Michael Apted’s “7 Up” series, the award-winning MY SO-CALLED ENEMY follows six courageous Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls who participated in a cross-cultural women’s leadership program in the U.S. and documents how the transformative experience of knowing their “enemies” as human beings in US meets with the realities of their lives back home in the Middle East over the next seven years.
A film about not making assumptions about, or creating “an other,” MY SO-CALLED ENEMY presents the complexities of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through a human lens, and the possibility and hope that come from listening to each other’s stories.
Winner of Jury Prize, Best Conflict & Resolution Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
“Aired on the ITVS-curated “Global Voices” series (WORLD Channel)”
