On the Doorstep is a documentary that shows how three generations of Palestinians in America from the Bisharat family have maintained their emotional attachment to their home in West Jerusalem, taken over by Israelis in 1948. 
Among them Valerie a 21-year-old, who traveled across the world to visit her grandfather’s house to find out the truth she inherited about the house. During her time in Jerusalem, she managed to meet Gisele Arazi, the 96-year-old Israeli current tenant of the house.

Sahera Dirbas is an independent filmmaker, freelance producer, script editor, lecturer and oral history researcher. She worked with Rai-Uno-Due-Tre TV, the BBC and others international television networks.

Prior to her filmmaking career, Sahera obtained a degree in Practical Chemical Engineering from Handasaem College in Technion, Haifa and worked in a pharmacology lab as well as in a pharmacy.

Based on her oral history research, Dirbas published three books about three destroyed Palestinian villages in 1948 and their cultural social, educational and folkloric life as well as the events of the Nakba.

45 min | 2018
Documentary / History
Arabic and English with English subtitles