Zindeeq

Acclaimed director Michel Khleifis story of a Palestinian filmmaker M living in Europe who returns home to Ramallah to film witness accounts of the 1948 Nakba not only explores the events of that tumultuous era but places them in context with the uncertainty and tension of presentday Palestine Over the course of a single day and night Ms solipsistic existence is shaken when his nephew kills a man in Nazareth placing the entire family at risk of reprisals This masterful feature a quietly witty complex and occasionally surreal depiction of an exiles relationship with Palestine marks a new direction in Khleifis work