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| Directed by | Carlos Bolado B.Z. Goldberg Justine Shapiro |
| Produced by | B.Z. Goldberg Justine Shapiro |
| Starring | Moishe and Raheli Bar Am Faraj Adnan Hassan Husein Mahmoud Mazen Mahmoud Izhiman Daniel Solan Yarko Solan Sanabel Hassan Shlomo |
| Cinematography | Ilan Buchbinder Yoram Millo |
| Edited by | Carlos Bolado |
Production company | Promises Film Project |
| Distributed by | Cowboy Pictures |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Arabic Hebrew |
Promises is a 2001 documentary film that examines the Israeli–Palestinian conflict from the perspectives of seven children living in the Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Israeli neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Promises has been shown at many film festivals and received excellent reviews and many accolades.
The film follows Israeli-American filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg as he meets with seven Palestinian and Israeli children between the ages of nine and thirteen, seeing the Middle East conflict through their eyes. It allows "ordinary" kids to develop natural bonds of affection by simply playing games with each other, bonds which go beyond the clutter of prejudices that they have heard from their parents and others around them.