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March 25, 2023, Posted in Feminist rights, The Palestinian-Zionist-Jewish conflict, Feminism, Woman Rights

Fertile Memory (1980)

— 100 min - Documentary, Drama, The Palestinian-Zionist-Jewish conflict, Feminism - 2 January 1980

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The first full-length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank, the Green Line, Fertile Memory. Michel Khleifi skillfully and lovingly crafts a portrait of two Palestinian women whose individual struggles define and transcend the politics that tore their homes and lives apart. In this film, director Khleifi compares two different models of two Palestinian women, as he deals with the reality of Palestinian women, their struggle, and their ability to improve their conditions in their society, under the Zionist (Israeli) occupation there in Palestine...

March 25, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

Tale of the Three Jewels (1995)

— 100 min - Drama, The Palestinian-Zionist-Jewish conflict - 2 January 1995

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A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef's family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father's in prison and his heavily-armed brother's on the run, parrying with Israeli troops...

March 16, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

Wedding in Galilee (1987)

— 112 min - Drama, Romance, The Palestinian-Zionist-Jewish conflict - 1 December 1987

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A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it...