PALESTINIAN LIFE UNDER OCCUPATION AND SIEGE
HIGHLIGHTED THEME
FILM ADVOCATE A thrilling court drama on the controversial Israeli advocate Lea Tsemel. The unapologetic 74-year-old has spent her whole life defending Palestinians charged with serious violent crimes, and argues that most of these acts of violence are acts of resistance against the Israeli apartheid regime. The documentary follows a 13-year-old Palestinian boy risking life imprisonment for stabbing Israelis on the streets of Tel Aviv, and a Palestinian young woman charged with an attempted suicide bombing. SEE PG.32
FILM OF LAND AND BREAD
FILM “MY GAZA ONLINE”
Daily, brutal meetings between Palestinians and Israelis in occupied territories. A man stuck in a barbed wire fence has been caught in the act. On his way up a roof to remove a Palestinian flag, he is confronted by the occupant of the house, with a camera. To the sound of cheers from the Israeli settlers in the street below, the uninvited guest insists that the land, and even the house, ultimately belong to him. SEE PG.34
Over the course of five years, Palestinian film director Mohamed Jabaly has been distant from his family and friends while living in the far north of Norway. Now the internet has become the only way to communicate with them, but it is difficult and challenging due to the situation in Gaza. SEE PG.87
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