Palestine 36′ director says film is about ‘refusal to disappear
Annemarie Jacir. Photo: file PARIS: The Oscar-nominated director of Palestine 36 said her big-budget production of a crucial but little-known Arab uprising is a statement about the Palestinians’ “refusal to disappear.” Veteran director Annemarie Jacir began production on the sweeping historical epic shortly before Israel’s disastrous invasion of Gaza in October 2023. Making the film was a “financial disaster”, she admitted in an interview with Agence France-Presse, but the encouraging critical response since its debut last September and its Oscar nomination offered some consolation. Palestine’s nominee for best international feature film, it is the most cinematically ambitious of the four
