The Tower (I) (2018) User Reviews

The Tower

[hellomioni · 10/10 · 4 December 2018]

A moving film about three generations Palestinians living in a refugee camp. It's about what it's like to constantly long home and to hope it will one day be possible to return. The story is based on interviews with real people in a refugee camp. People who usually do not have a voice and who finally get to tell the world what they've gone through. Wonderful 3D dolls and settings are combined with beautiful 2D flashbacks. An important movie!

Very moving and superbly animated

[borgescoelho · 10/10 · 12 December 2018]

Its a child's perspective of a problem created by grown ups. While the child is Palestinian, I dont find it to be biased, it simply portrays a reality that unfortunately many children have to live in. The real live stories are beautifully animated in stop motion and illustration, simply stunning.

Beautiful movie!

[birtebodtker · 10/10 · 12 December 2018]

Everyone should see this wonderful film about Palestinian refugees. Beautiful made animation and on point story.

A brilliant glimpse of harsh reality

[abakkerud · 9/10 · 14 December 2018]

The Tower uses the mode of animation to enter deep into palestinian reality. And it works. You get to know several animated characters who during the film seem to turn into persons. The modern history of Palestine is the background and the dynamo of the film. But the heartbeat is the daily life experiences of 4 generations of palestinians, with refugee camps as their base camp, as a provisional yet lasting home - living and loving, fighting and hoping. Hoping one day to be able to use the key they always kept, to get back into the house they once lost, and which someone occupied. So much pain, so much love, so much struggle for dignity and humanity. The animation gets right through to you, without any actors as mediators. Go see it, and contemplate it!

useful

[Kirpianuscus · 7 March 2020]

An useful film for discover and understand and feel. A family, a little girl and the history of her family, pieces of past and admirable meeting of stop motion and drawings and, not the last, a great portrait of war, forms of survive and the hope in its basic traits and nuances. Short, a lesson, real precious one, about what is important out of any form of illusion or ambiguity, impressive for gentle poetry and for profound wise storytelling.

The Tower

[randjansteinar · 1/10 · 14 December 2018]

Beautiful movie but not a movie for children. The political message are one sided, leaving the wiewer no options to make up his or hers mind. It leaves a bad taste of indoctrination and should be taken for what it is. That is POLITICAL PROPAGANDA. Nothing more. This could have been a good movie if it left the spectators a few more perspectives on a conflict extremely complex. But no, It's propaganda!

Must see

[erlendsob · 10/10 · 12 December 2018]

Moving film about generations of palestinian refugees. A must to see.

A must see film

[nahedhawwad · 9/10 · 12 December 2018]

This film is about hope. Warda is a little girl looking for hope in a refugee camp and among refugees that been living in waiting condition more than 6 decades...in place where you think there are no hope... she mange to find it, somehow.

Important and touching movie. Tårnet.

[aminabitar · 10/10 · 12 December 2018]

This movie can be used in different teaching settings with youth as well as children , preferably with a discussion afterwards. War and oppression, through a child's perspective. Lovely movie.

Generations of hope

[ida-gabrielsen · 10/10 · 12 December 2018]

Beautiful, thoughtful and hopeful film, that without taking side, simply shows us how generations hold on to the hope for something better while living their lives for the generations to come.

Free of Orientalism and stereo typical characters

[imge-ozbilge · 10/10 · 13 December 2018]

I love it that the movie is free of Orientalism and stereo typical characters Beautiful movie with beautiful art direction and visual world.

Humanising, gentle portrait of refugees

[pellesampas · 10/10 · 14 December 2018]

The film is a humanizing portrait of people in a modern-day refugee camp, AND an animation which brought me to tears in the cinema. I also pleased to read in the Israeli TIME OUT magazine, that the film succeeds in NOT attacking Israel. Instead shedding light on the everyday lives (and family history) of a real-life Palestinian family living today in Beirut... These are real people.

The reason for my unusual 10/10 score is because I've never seen a film which uses animation to deal with the Palestinian subject. Recommended!

Fantastic film

[anneingebrigtsen · 10/10 · 13 December 2018]

A moving and beautiful film about generations of palestinian refugees. A film everyone should see!

Great Watch

[aya-hammad · 10/10 · 25 January 2019]

Very informative and sheds the light on the refugees ongoing crisis

A must see film!

[PuzzledHarry · 9/10 · 12 March 2019]

This is indeed a must see film on how high level decisions (or non-decisions) affect the every day life of people who have nothing to do with the problem. Wonderfully animated, beautifully told story, very touching and at the same time full of hope and of despair. Not a children's film, but very educational!