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- 2005
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 15 m
- 2005
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 15 m
Summary This documentary profiles an Israeli-born Palestinian who has immigrated to America in search of a boxing career.
Directed By: Duki Dror
- 2005
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 15 m
- 2005
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 15 m
Raging Dove
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Summary This documentary profiles an Israeli-born Palestinian who has immigrated to America in search of a boxing career.
Directed By: Duki Dror
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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Then everything went wrong, thanks to Middle East politics -- as the moving documentary Raging Dove shows.
Bruising but illuminating documentary.
I'm no boxing fan, but there's something admirable about fighter Johar Abu Lashin's love of his sport, chronicled in Duki Dror's tautly constructed 2002 documentary.
In a sense, Raging Dove serves as an entirely unintentional, I'm sure, metaphor for peace prospects in his homeland.
In the frustrating, underachieving documentary Raging Dove, the filmmakers seem to get shut down every time the film threatens to become interesting.
Raging Dove can't avoid the biodoc pitfall of fixating on its subject's personal saga to the virtual exclusion of all else; by the end it's essentially blaming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Abu Lashin's professional demise.
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Production Company
Zygote Films
Release Date Apr 13, 2005
Duration 1 h 15 m
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Website
http://www.arabfilm.com/
Awards
Valley Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Francisco International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
