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Movie Info

A prominent Israeli journalist documents the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother as they try to get treatment for her baby who suffers from an incurable genetic disease.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

Hebrew
Director:

Shlomi Eldar
Producer:

Ehud Bleiberg, Yoav Ze'evi
Writer:

Shlomi Eldar
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 4, 2019
Runtime:

1h 27m

Cast & Crew

Shlomi Eldar
Director

Shlomi Eldar
Screenwriter

Ehud Bleiberg
Producer

Yoav Ze'evi
Producer

Yehuda Poliker
Original Music

Shlomi Eldar
Cinematographer

Critic Reviews for Precious Life

All Critics (10) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (10)

The issues in this particular conflict are immensely difficult ones, but, despite the film's flaws, this is quite an inspirational story among all the bad news from that part of the world.

July 19, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

David Stratton
At the Movies (Australia)
The engrossing story of a Palestinian infant with a rare and deadly disease who can only be saved by a Jewish doctor in the Tel-Hashomer Hospital in Jerusalem.

January 7, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Stephen Cole
Globe and Mail
An enthralling experience.

September 11, 2010 | Full Review…

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
It focuses on people trying to make a positive difference in societies dominated by chaos and destruction.

September 10, 2010 | Full Review…

Stephen Farber
Hollywood Reporter
The 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.

July 24, 2011 | Full Review…

Simon Foster
sbs.com.au
Eye-opening and often devastating, this documentary challenges audiences to confront and question their own biases and assumptions.

July 19, 2011 | Full Review…

Cara Nash
FILMINK (Australia)
The best of man and the worst of man - side by side and face to face ... one of those stories about the human condition that gives us both hope and reason for despair

July 15, 2011 | Full Review…

Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile
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March 29, 2011 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

National Post
Extraordinary...provides a gripping, intimate perspective on the ages-old conflict between Jews and Palestinians... Powerful stuff.

November 19, 2010 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Fr. Chris Carpenter
Movie Dearest
Precious Life, the story of Mohammad, a Gazan infant who is given life-saving treatment in an Israeli hospital, is full of profound paradoxes.

September 13, 2010 | Rating: 4/5

Norman Wilner
NOW Toronto

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Audience Reviews for Precious Life

Jan 07, 2011

Beautiful 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.

John B Super Reviewer
Dec 28, 2010

Fascinating and moving documentary about a Palestinian baby in need of a life-saving operation, whose only hope lies in an expensive treatment in an Israeli hospital. Starts as a heartwarming tale of enemies setting aside their differences to save a life, and becomes something infinitely more complex, as the Jewish filmmaker realizes the mother's desire for her son to become a martyr - to die for the Muslim cause to retake Jerusalem. A powerful and insightful real life drama.

Matthew L Super Reviewer