Palestinian director Leila Sansour has made a fierce, poignant film about her family and her hometown of Bethlehem, now in Palestinian territory but progressively stifled by the Israeli government’s anti-terrorist barrier .. Read More
Leila Sansour's documentary Open Bethlehem follows her campaign to stop occupying Israeli forces encircling her hometown with a concrete wall. ... Read More
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Watch this Christmas 2014 video with Peter Bradshaw from the Guardian, making this film of the week. As the credits roll on Leila Sansour’s melancholy chronicle of a fractured city, her mother despairs at her eldest daughter’s stubbornness ... Read More |
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