A Film by Nissim Mossek
(Israel, 2002, 135 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English subtitles)

In 1970, a protest movement led by young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods in Jerusalem, burst into the public consciousness with its unusual, anti-establishment, and sometimes violent actions. The young people involved  became known as the “Black Panthers”. 

They ignited the country's imagination and came to be seen as the “Robin Hoods” from Jerusalem. They galvanized the masses and terrified the establishment. They held giant demonstrations and provoked violent confrontations with the police. Their protest was a spontaneous flood, with no organization or direction from above.

Nissim Mossek, who was then a beginning television film editor, met them in 1971, followed their revolutionary course, which he saw as correct and just, and immediately began to document their dynamic activities.

Over a period of several years Mossek and the Panthers made a protest film, Have You Heard About the Panthers, Uncle Moshe? The film presented the protest and social message of the first and most important grassroots movement in Israeli history. The film negative, which disappeared many years ago, has only recently turned up again.

Thirty years later, this film visits disadvantaged neighborhoods, towns, and other places in Israel in quest of the Panthers and other characters who appeared in the original film.



AWARDS &  FESTIVALS

 The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & T.V Award
 Haifa Film Festival, Israel

 
TV SCREENINGS

 Yes, Israel
 Channel 1, Israel