500 DUNAM on the MOON

500 DUNAM on the MOON is a documentary about the Palestinian village of Ayn Hawd, which was captured and depopulated by Israeli forces in the 1948 war and subsequently transformed into a Jewish artist's colony and renamed "Ein Hod." It tells the story of the village's original inhabitants who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away in the outlying hills. The film echoes the story of indigenous peoples everywhere: oppression, resistance, and the struggle to negotiate the scars of the past with the needs of the present and the hopes for the future. Addressing the universal issues of colonization, landlessness, housing rights and cultural appropriation in the specific context of Israel/Palestine, 500 DUNAM on the MOON documents the art of dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed.