The Stranger

Fresco Films

VERDICT: Palestine’s 2022 Oscar submission is a brooding story of lives in limbo in the Golan Heights, stunningly shot and wrenching in its moving evocation of a man mired in self-loathing and paralyzed by the physical and existential no-man’s land resulting in the Israeli occupation and the disaster in Syria.

December 8th, 2021

Even in peacetime, borders are liminal zones that toy with identity, but as we know only too well in

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