The current, terminal stage of the Israel-Palestine conflict — combined with the educative efforts of various commentators on it and growing sympathy with the Palestinian cause — calls for a shift in media representations. Premiering at Sundance this weekend, it represents a striking return to features for Dabis following a hiatus spent working on high-end US series after her breakout film Amreeka.
With the narrative timeline expanding sequentially from , and to with a wraparound segment in the third date , the fortunes of the Hammad family — incidentally played by three members of the eminent Bakri acting dynasty — initially see them living a secure, upper-middle-class existence as prosperous farmers in Jaffa, after which they flee to a Nablus refugee camp in the West Bank, where a tragedy afflicting their offspring during an anti-occupation protest disturbs their predicament further.
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