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Palestinian Women, a Guide to Cultural Resistance (2020)
In 2017, French filmmaker Mariette Auvray set out with a young woman named Nadija — a girl from Jerusalem, roughly her own age — to drive across a divided land. Together they went from Jerusalem to Haifa, stopping in Acre, Bethlehem, Ramallah. On each side of the wall, they met the women who don't often make it into the coverage — the ones running things, making things, teaching things, keeping something alive.
A visual artist. A restaurant owner. A publisher. A feminist organizer. A young woman opening the door to her studio. Another walking her daughter to school.
The film doesn't ask you to take a side. It asks you to see what tends to get left out of the frame — the daily, unglamorous, deeply committed work of women who refuse to disappear.
To the director, they are the keepers of the culture there — and of a certain idea of resistance.
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In 2017, French filmmaker Mariette Auvray set out with a young woman named Nadija — a girl from Jerusalem, roughly her own age — to drive across a divided land. Together they went from Jerusalem to Haifa, stopping in Acre, Bethlehem, Ramallah. On each side of the wall, they met the women who don't often make it into the coverage — the ones running things, making things, teaching things, keeping something alive.
A visual artist. A restaurant owner. A publisher. A feminist organizer. A young woman opening the door to her studio. Another walking her daughter to school.
The film doesn't ask you to take a side. It asks you to see what tends to get left out of the frame — the daily, unglamorous, deeply committed work of women who refuse to disappear.
To the director, they are the keepers of the culture there — and of a certain idea of resistance.
🔔 Follow us for the stories that don't make the news.
💬 Comment a woman's story you wish more people knew.
#palestinianwomen #culturalresistance #womenfilmmakers #feministcinema #documentaryfilm #indiedocumentary #letterboxd #filmrecommendation #newyorkcity🗽
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