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Palestine 36
Directed by
Annemarie Jacir
2025
2h
Biography
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In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.
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Cast of Palestine 36
Karim Daoud Anaya
Yusuf
Hiam Abbass
Hanan
Robert Aramayo
Captain Wingate
Yasmine Al Massri
Khouloud
Billy Howle
Thomas Hopkins
Dhafer L'Abidine
Amir
Ward Helou
Kareem
Yafa Bakri
Rabab
Wardi Eilabouni
Afra
Saleh Bakri
Khalid
Jalal Altawil
Father Boulos
Jeremy Irons
High Commissioner Wauchope
Kamel El Basha
Abu Rabab
Joanna Arida
Dyala's Cousin
Sofia Asir
Dyala
Eid Aziz
Abu Yusuf
Samer Bisharat
Payroll Sami
Liam Cunningham
Charles Tegart
Hussam Abu Eisheh
Al Basma Mukhtar
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Maher
Palestine 36 Ratings & Reviews
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
An allegory of epic proportions. The history lesson and narrative resonate.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
It all works quite well as a jigsaw of many pieces that add up to an involving, tragic, relatively even-handed big picture.
Fort Worth Report
Joe Friar
Good performances and a riveting story told with passion.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a potentially stirring and electrifying premise that is, for the most part, employed to woefully (and depressingly) underwhelming effect by Jacir...
Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)
Rachel Wagner
an excellent film. Very well made and acted. Worth your time
Film Freak Central
Angelo Muredda
As diagrammatic as Palestine '36 can sometimes be, there's an elegance and a grace to these contrasts that cast the grandness of Jacir's canvas of a people in crisis into relief.
Hammer to Nail
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Of the many cinematic strengths on display within Palestine '36, perhaps the most valuable is this question of perspective, especially since Jacir does not present the Palestinian population as a monolith.
The Film Yap
Christopher Lloyd
A bracing look at an unheralded piece of turbulent Middle East history from an explicitly pro-Palestine viewpoint.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
As overdue tales of history go, "Palestine '36" is certainly more of a blunt instrument than a novelistic endeavor. But its broad strokes and rooted passions easily earn their place, and deserve to inspire more such stories.
HollywoodChicago.com
Patrick McDonald
As history repeats itself over and over, the remarkable and unescapable perspective in Jacir's film is that often the native peoples in a region ripe for colonial plucking are the ones who suffer the most. And Palestinians more so. W/Jacir interview.
Maven's Nest
Nora Lee Mandel
Visual emphasis on land and striking landscape cinematically communicates homeland theme. This historical epic is action, but returns to multi-generation ensemble of family.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Damon Wise
It's certainly refreshing to be credited with some intelligence, but the visual storytelling doesn't quite hit the same spot, often falling back on old tropes about cycles of violence that create new cycles of violence.
The New Yorker
Justin Chang
Its strength lies in the creation of characters who, although sometimes forced to function stiffly as rhetorical mouthpieces, seem genuinely conflicted and caught off guard by the brutal interventions of history.
RogerEbert.com
Carlos Aguilar
That a traditionally realized historical drama with impeccable production value and consistently effective performances centers the Palestinian perspective makes for an essential endeavor.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
At a time when our movies feel as though they're getting smaller and more meaningless, it's refreshing to see works of such sweep and ambition, whatever their flaws may be.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
The dynamics are rarely simply drawn, and if the film's default mode is miniseries-expository, there are a few striking stylistic flourishes.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
This is a story of national identity and resistance with contemporary resonance, but it's also a classic genre movie, its historical tapestry populated by a strong ensemble of screen stars as well as impressive newcomers.
Variety
Murtada Elfadl
[Palestine 36] has a lot of story to tell, but still manages to singularly draw its many characters and to give specificity to its different locations. It demands the audience's undivided attention and earns it by the end of its running time.
RogerEbert.com
Marya E. Gates
It's a humanist film at its heart, remaining deeply rooted in the lives of its characters, their relationships with their community, their love for their people, and their enduring connection to their ancestral land.
IndieWire
Ritesh Mehta
It works if you are really paying attention to the pageturner storytelling and have the spatial intelligence to proactively connect plants to payoffs.
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