Unadorned in form yet uncompromising in purpose, Jacir’s invigorating new work about the late ‘30s Arab revolt in Palestine shows that power lies in the clarity with which one reframes both past injustice and present responsibility.
A Palestinian resistance fighter falls in love with a girl on the opposite side of the West Bank Wall in this romance drama that operates as a deft, noose-tightening thriller when he is captured by Israeli authorities and forced to become an informant.
A documentary project by both Palestinians and Israelis that provides the necessary context for the eradication of several Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank by the IDF and armed settlers—it’s hard-hitting but a testament to courageous and responsible filmmaking in torrid circumstances.
A family consisting of four generations of Palestinian women is the subject of this highly personal documentary that sheds an affirmative light on stories of displacement—from their lands and themselves.
Suleiman’s strong debut has everything that we have come to know about his vignette storytelling style, which houses a mildly humorous if sometimes wistful take on the loss of Arab identity in Israel.
At times jaw-droppingly hilarious, Elia Suleiman’s absurdist work here rightfully makes light of the fractured Israeli-Palestinian relations through a series of increasingly outlandish scenarios.
Continue reading →This droll, sometimes utterly amusing comedy of sight gags, makes certain sharp socio-political observations, but is ultimately too slight and inconsistent a film to really work.
Continue reading →A Palestinian father-son road trip through Nazareth is handled with nuance and grace despite thorny issues of family and nationalism in this understated offering.
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