Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir creates films that act as an implicit counterpoint to the mainstream. Palestine 36 is a historical film of rebellion that challenges two of the prevailing narratives which have emerged in the last two years: that the Israel-Palestine conflict was instigated by Palestinian resistance, and that there was "peace" before October 7th. Though it began production before then, its release in this sociopolitical context gives Jacir's thrilling and quietly hopeful film a powerful new context.

Even so, the film is only tangentially about the Zionist settler and indigenous Palestinian relationship. Palestine 36 focuses on the largest and longest revolt in the then-thirty-year-old British colonial rule, and how the ruling power easily pitted two maligned popul

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