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'Palestine 36' director says film is about 'refusal to disappear'
Annemarie Jacir's film depicts the 1936 Arab revolt to highlight Palestinian resilience and challenges dominant historical narratives, despite costly production disruptions and critical acclaim.
- Annemarie Jacir's Palestine 36 is Oscar-shortlisted and was submitted by Palestine for Best International Feature, describing it as a sweeping historical epic rooted in real events.
- Jacir wanted to challenge histories that `We always start Palestinian history with the Nakba`, she said, aiming to recover the neglected 1936 Arab rebellion under British colonial administration.
- Filming began in the West Bank but the war forced Annemarie Jacir to abandon a village built over 12 months and relocate production to Jordan, which she called a financial disaster.
- The film features Oscar-winning British actor Jeremy Irons and Franco-Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, and Jacir thanked financiers including the BBC and the British Film Institute.
- Amid the Gaza war and political talk of displacement, Jacir says she no longer believes in a two-state solution amid current pressures on Palestinians.
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'Palestine 36' director says film is about 'refusal to disappear'
·Paris, France
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Paris: Palestinian director Anne Marie Jaser, through her new film on the 1936 Arab Revolution in Palestine, seeks to highlight the indecency of the British Mandate, which is considered to be a forgotten root of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Annemarie Jacir: 'Palestine 36' director says film is about 'refusal to disappear'
·Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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“Every Single Day Was a Nightmare”: Annemarie Jacir on the Past and Present of Palestine 36
Few films of late have better pitched themselves than Palestine 36, which assumes the form of a respectable historic drama—international co-funding, some notable actors to polish that process, and a sturdy, not-too-flashy visual palette—to detail Palestine’s troubled pre-Zionist history with strong criticism and flashes of brutal violence. That its echoes into today take very little to perceive is not from writer-director Annemarie Jacir hijacki…
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