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`Jenin Jenin' filmmaker to ask Israeli Supreme Court to overturn censorship.
Byline: Joel Greenberg
RAMALLAH, West Bank _ The audience was sparse and the theater poorly heated, but Mohammad Bakri received a warm reception from viewers who came to see his film after it was banned in Israel.
Bakri, a prominent Israeli Arab actor, was in Ramallah recently to show "Jenin, Jenin," a movie he produced and directed that looks through Palestinian eyes at the Israeli army's assault in the Jenin refugee camp last spring.
"I made the film with my heart before my mind," he told the audience. "It is not a documentary."
The Israeli film censorship board banned Bakri's movie last month, saying it amounts to enemy propaganda in wartime. The decision marked the first time in 14 years that a movie has been censored in Israel.
Bakri says he will challenge the ruling in the Israeli Supreme Court. The case is likely to test the limits of free speech in Israel after more than two years of deadly conflict with the Palestinians that many Israelis are calling a war.
"Israel pretends that it is the only democracy in the Middle East, but banning the film proves that democracy in Israel is very limited, and not for all its citizens," said Bakri, 49, a member of Israel's million-strong Arab minority.
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