Stuck in a one-square kilometer ghetto – also called a "refugee camp" – 50,000 Palestinians live in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon, unable to do much of anything beyond scrape by.

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Depressing as the subject can be, the film, itself, is a beautiful work of art.

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Sometimes it’s just nice sit back and watch a well-made humanitarian drama that refuses to add politically charged fuel to an already raging fire.

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After watching Ra’anan Alexandrowicz and Liran Atzmor’s The Law In These Parts and listening to these lawmakers “explain” their positions on how this situation got to be where it is, it’s difficult… it’s complicated… frankly, it’s hard not to want to punch Israel in its imperious face.

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Budrus is a riveting, modern-day illustration in sound and vision of just how effective nonviolent resistance can be.

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(Salt of This Sea opens in New York City on Friday, August 13, 2010, at the Quad Cinema. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) Annemarie Jacir’s Salt of This Sea, which screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard a […]

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