Detained
Overview
Najwa, Nawal, and Siham, three Palestinian widows, live with their 11 children in a house on Shuhada Street in Hebron. Their house lies on the border; the façade is under Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Authority controls the back. At the entrance to the house is a military post; on the roof the Israeli army has placed a watch point over Palestinian Hebron. The three women, trapped in the middle and constantly surrounded by Israeli soldiers, carry on their difficult lives in a perverse situation: the occupation becomes a routine, the absurd becomes a given. This is the story of an occupation that extends to the staircase and the roof of the house, where it encounters poverty, loneliness, pain, but also the small joys of everyday life. This is an internal prison, the external one is the ongoing occupation.
Release date
22/02/2001
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Original Soundtrack
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Enemy Alien
La bataille de Jérusalem
West of the Jordan River
Far from Maine
Diary Of A Disgraced Soldier
The Easiest Targets
Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza
Highway
Discordia
The Tank and the Olive Tree, Another History of Palestine
The Other Jerusalem
Jerusalem Cuts
Invisible Alliance
Searching for Freedom: The Holy Land Foundation
The eloquence of blood
Stitching Palestine
Something from There
Relentless: Struggle for Peace in the Middle East
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk