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Palestine

The lot of human life

womanhood: Black humor illuminates this close-up portrait of a sarcastic, elderly Palestinian woman's life, relationships, desires and bitterness.
Nick Holdsworth -

The lost defender

ISRAEL: For almost fifty years, Lea Tsemel has been at the forefront of the fight for justice and compassion for those lost and impossible to defend.
Bianca-Olivia Nita -

Gaza: A silk thread separates life from death

ISRAEL-LANYARD: For people on the Gaza Strip, hope is running out.
Nadia Othman -

Dandelion of the West Bank

LANYARD: What Walaa Wants portrays a child growing up in the shadow of Israeli occupation and Palestinian freedom struggle, in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank.
Ellen Lande -

Sentenced to prison for his poetry

TEL AVIV: Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was arrested and placed under house arrest by Israeli authorities in October 2015. Because of a poem. Well, she's out of house arrest. 3. March she comes to Oslo (at Vega, the salon).
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Small bits of beauty

EVERYDAY IN GAZA: The film portrays the resignation that is, in effect, a desire to find life and happiness in the midst of all the tragedies.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Then the people had enough

OCCUPATION: Naila and the Uprising is a close and personal story of women's struggle and big politics during the first intifada.
Vibeke Harper -

The documentary as a means of communication

Spaces of Exception compares the experience of oppression and resistance, and finds similarities between North American Native American reserves and Palestinian refugee camps.
Carmen Gray -

25 years after the Oslo Agreement

Ever after getting in port, the Camp David agreement in 1978 has later made it difficult to meet the Palestinians' desire for an independent state, writes historian Seth Anziska in a new book.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

That talk is taboo

When Lebanese-born Ziad Doueiri embarked on his new film, he considered it very likely that the Lebanese authorities would ban the film because of its controversial content.  
Aleksander Huser -

Parallel life in the West Bank 

Avner Faingulernt's two film portraits are a reminder that a place of birth can make the difference between heaven and hell.  
Hans Henrik Fafner -

When death becomes the last option

In the weekly demonstrations at the Gaza border, thousands of protesters stake their lives for a better future.
Nadia Othman -

Romance and Racism in Tekoa

A "leftist" Israeli filmmaker spends 30 days in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, trying to get behind the stereotypes. 
Vibeke Harper -

End of the peace process?

The United States has no longer decided to deal with the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a diplomatic body, while Trump is threatening to cut all support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees. Now the US embassy in Israel has moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Is the peace process over?
Hamada Hamada Fajer -

The struggle for Palestinian national memory 

The ongoing Palestinian return march, which started 30. March, and has gathered tens of thousands of Palestinians, is a message to Israel and the international community that Palestinians maintain the demand for the right to return to their homeland.
Hamada Hamada Fajer -

Israel's neurotic state

14. May this year marks the 70 anniversary of the proclamation of the State of Israel. Historian Michael Brenner takes a closer look at the complex and, in part, contradictory basis of its existence.
Hans Henrik Fafner -
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