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How a boy’s death brought a West Bank cinema back to life
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Patrick Crowley
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August 5, 2010 at 7:45 am
JENIN, ISRAEL — In a tribute to a Palestinian boy accidentally killed, the city of Jenin banded together to bring a cinema back to life.
“A city with 70,000 people without a cinema is sad — there’s nothing you can do and nowhere to go,” Vetter told CNN.
“I decided to stop making documentaries for a year and try to establish the cinema.
“We wanted to get the Jenin youth involved and give them a vision to believe in, something to aim for.”
Read more atCNN.
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Any news on the progress of opening the theatre?