Origin: Morocco | France | Documentary | Director: Nabil Ayouch | 85 minutes

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My Land

Nabil Ayouch 2010 docu 85 min.

In 2000, Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch delivered a signal work of Arab
social cinema with the multi award winning Ali Zoua: Prince of the Streets,
a drama crafted with the street children of Casablanca and celebrated by
the San Francisco Chronicle as "cinematic magic". A decade on, Ayouch's
documentary My Land finds him adopting an equally radical approach to his
subject: Palestinian refugees and the Jewish Israelis who live on their
lands. After recording testimonies (personal, historical, and political)
from Palestinians in the camps of the region, Ayouch visits their homes in
present day Israel, testing the attitudes of today's inhabitants toward the
land's Palestinian past and owners. In a bold, at moments unsettling
intervention Ayouch then stages a series of virtual encounters, exposing
the current inhabitants to intimate video testimony from the refugees whose
homes they now occupy... My Land is a searching and original work aimed at
the very core of the Palestine/Israel conflict.

Full feature: https://vimeo.com/80986700

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/9003/My-Land

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