Author: Jacqueline Rush Rivera

Annemarie Jacir’s epic drama, Palestine 36, contextualizes the horrific wars of today not as abstract anomalies that the nightly news portrays, but as the direct extensions of colonialism and Western interventionist agendas that have been evolving for decades. The film serves as a searing counter-narrative to colonial history, framing the 1936 Arab Revolt against British colonial rule as part of a blueprint for modern occupation. An international co-production shot in Arabic and English in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Jordan (where filming was forced to relocate after the start of the Gaza war in October 2023), Jacir’s film features a…