Origin: Italy | Documentary | Director: Nicola Zambelli | ? minutes

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The story

The story of the village of At-Tuwani is the story we filmed in 2010 and then told in our first film "Tomorrow's Land" (2011 - winner of numerous awards in Italy, documentary that participated among others in the David di Donatello, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Al Jazeera Film Festival), centred on the experience of the nonviolent popular struggle committee of the hills south of Hebron. Over the past ten years, the settlements adjacent to At-Tuwani have continued to expand, increasing the number of inhabitants and continuing to build houses and farms for animals. At the same time, the Israeli army has continued to obstruct the Palestinian presence in the area, demolishing any new houses, obstructing daily life with flying check-points and arbitrary controls, and continuing to look for excuses to remove inhabitants from their homes. A documentary - entirely self-produced online thanks to Produzioni dal Basso and offline thanks to dozens of public meetings - that has helped raise awareness of the history of At-Tuwani, has been seen by thousands of people in hundreds of screenings around the world.

The film

In 2018 we returned to At-Tuwani to tell the story of "Youth of Sumud", a collective of young people and teenagers born and raised under military occupation and within the popular struggle of the village, made up of boys and girls studying and working to ensure that they and their fellow citizens can continue to exist on their land and achieve a better future. The boys and girls of YOS are the children we filmed ten years ago as they made the gruelling journey from the village of Tuba to At-Tuwani escorted by soldiers of the Israeli army (an escort established after the violent attacks on the children by settlers in Ma'On and Havat Ma'on, which caused protests and indignation in Israel itself); they are the children we saw going to school and dreaming of the disappearance of the occupation.

Today they have decided not only to continue the action of nonviolent resistance of the popular committee of the village, but also to reappropriate (symbolically and materially) the lands that were taken from their fellow citizens, going to live in the evacuated caves of the village of Sarura. Their story is a concrete example of hope, a peaceful struggle conducted under the banner of human dignity, the outcome of which is still uncertain but whose final outcome is written through the story of each of them. To put an end to a conflict that can only be resolved in full acceptance of the human being.

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