Breaking video: Palestine 36 wins top prize at Tokyo International Film Festival

Palestine 36 has won the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival, in what its makers have called “another milestone for Palestinian cinema”.

Palestine 36: already award-winning

Wardi Eilabouni, one of the film’s young stars, accepted the award on behalf of the team:

The film, which has a 100% rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes, is set in Palestine in 1936, as villages revolt against the British empire’s colonial rule twelve years before the empire helped Israeli gangs and terrorists to drive out hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes with violence and massacres.

Palestine 36’s protagonist Yusuf “navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire”, according to the makers’ synopsis.

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