Looted from Beirut 35 years ago, now on display in Tel Aviv
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The relatively short film is moving: it is hard not to wonder how these images would have influenced the development of Palestinian cinema had they not been stolen and made inaccessible to Palestinian producers.
Films by Palestinians consistently make waves and win prizes internationally, against all the odds and despite Israel’s cultural warfare against Palestinian artists. It is not a stretch to say that the potential of Palestinian #cinema could have been even greater had parts of its history not been hidden from the eyes of the world.
