Saleh Bakri and Imogen Poots portray colleagues at a West Bank school who try to help a student recover from a crushing loss.
, an intimate exploration of life in occupied Palestine, is a question posed by a bereaved teenager to the title character, who has suffered his own family-shattering losses. “After all you’ve been through,” the boy named Adam says, “you still believe there’ll be justice?”, at the helm of her first feature, understands the urgency of this question.
For the characters in her West Bank-set drama, living within a system structured against them, to believe in justice isn’t simply a matter of attitude; it requires action. Navigating a complex narrative line, Nabulsi doesn’t always achieve the nuance or the propulsive tension the material requires, but she has a sure grasp of emotional give-and-take and day-to-day realities.
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