With a start date in the last century, the conflict between Israel and Palestine is one of the longest and most violent in the world. It has historical, territorial and political reasons full of details and extremely complex.
If you are a person who is interested in knowing a little more on what happens in these duels and even to understand some aspects of the conflict, know that there are cinematographic works that bring shades of the clash.
5 films on the conflict between Israel and Palestine
To help you find very important and impactful works on the history of the conflict, the Lists 5 very interesting options to look at streaming.
Before checking them, knowing itnot being based on facts. See below!
1 – Golda – The wife of a nation (2023)
This feature tells the story of the first woman who was instead of prime minister of Israel, Golda Meir, also called Iron Lady.
The film presents a historical and political cut of the Yom Kippur war in 1973, in which the Egyptians and the Syrians fought against the Israelis for the control of the Sinai peninsula. In this way, it shows some very risky decisions he had to make.
Helen Mirren (Golda Meir), Camille Cottin (Lou Kaddar), Rami Heuberger (Moshe Dayan), Lior Ashkenazi (David Elazar), Liev Schreiber (Henry Kissinger), Dominic Mafham (Haim Bar Lev), and Stoppard (Benny Pelegman) and President Aranat).
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2 – Paradise Now (2005)
This is a slightly controversial film, since Jews believe that the work humanizes the men of the Palestinian bombs. Also at the time, the main Israeli networks of cinemas refused to show the film.
The feature presents the story of two Palestinian friends who have known each other for a long time and live in the West Bank: they are Kaled (Ali Suliman) and said (Kais Nashef). They are recruited to make a suicidal attack on Tel Aviv to Isarel. The production interprets, according to the author, what the two hours together would be before the mission.
At the time, a petition was also made by claiming that the film justified the attacks of the Palestinian suicides against the civilians of Israel.
Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad responded to criticism with a declaration in the variety of American newspapers, saying “The Palestinians are a people and there are a land in which they live. The United States also recognize the existence of a Palestinian state and the fact that it is currently occupied does not mean that it does not exist. “
Despite all disputes, the work was appointed for the Oscar for the best foreign film.
Lubna Azabal (Suha), Hiam Abbass (Said mother), Ali Suliman (Khaled), Amer Hlehel (Jamal) and Ashraf Barhom (Abu-Karem).
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3 – O Jerusalem (2006)
Based on real facts, or Jerusalemme tells the story of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, from the point of view of two American friends, one who has Arab origin; The other, Jew. As they leave New York to move to Jerusalem, they put life at risk to fight for what they believe in.
JJ Feild (Bobby Goldman), Saïd Taghmaououi (Saïd Chahine), Maria Popes (Hadassah), Patrick Bruel (David Levin), Ian Holm (Ben Gurion), Tovah Feltshuh (Golda Meir), Mel Raido (Jacob), Cécile Cassel (Jane), Mhairi Morrison (Cathy – AS AS Mhairi Steenbock), Tom Conti (Sir Cunningham), Shirel (Yaël), Peter Polycarpou (Abdel Khader), Daniel Lundh (Roni), Anatol Yusef (Major Tell), Jamie Harding (Amin Chahine) and Laura Weissbecker (Agnieska).
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4 – Inch’allah (2012)
This is a Canadian narrative work that tries to reflect complexity and bring details on the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
The production tells the story of Chloe, a gynecologist who left Canada to take care of women in pregnancy in the West Bank. In his routine, he faced a journey where he lived in Israel and worked in Palestine. So, he created ties in both scenarios.
Evelyne Brochu (Chloé), Sabrina Ouzani (Rand – Chloé friend and patient), Sivan Levy (Ava – Friend and neighbor of Chloé), Yousef Swed (Fayal – older brother of Rand)
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5 – at 200 meters (2020)
In this work, even imaginary, we follow the story of Mustafa (Ali Suliman), a family father who is separated from his family with a wall that divides the West Bank and Israel.
The plot gets a dramatic prejudice when he receives a call to warn that his son had an accident and is hospitalized. So try to cross the border, but it is excluded.
Therefore, production shows how people from Israel and Palestine are affected by the conflict that exists before they are born.
Ali Suliman (Mustafa), Anna Uterberger (Anne), Gassan Abbas (Abu Nidal), Doraid Liddawi (Avi), Luna Zreik (Salwa) and Motaz Malhees (Kifah).
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