CinemaOSMovie · 2001 · 1h 13m

Detained

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Najwa, Nawal, and Siham, three Palestinian widows, live with their 11 children in a house on Shuhada Street in Hebron. Their house lies on the border; the façade is under Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Authority controls the back. At the entrance to the house is a military post; on the roof the Israeli army has placed a watch point over Palestinian Hebron. The three women, trapped in the middle and constantly surrounded by Israeli soldiers, carry on their difficult lives in a perverse situation: the occupation becomes a routine, the absurd becomes a given. This is the story of an occupation that extends to the staircase and the roof of the house, where it encounters poverty, loneliness, pain, but also the small joys of everyday life. This is an internal prison, the external one is the ongoing occupation.

Directed byAda Ushpiz, Anat Even

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 13m
Language
HE
Released
February 22, 2001

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Directed by
Ada Ushpiz
Anat Even
Produced by
Dan Setton

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