Mr. Fleifel helps walk us through the history with an ingratiating voice-over that lightens the seemingly permanent clouds of a dire history.
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Slant MagazineDiego Semerene
Slant MagazineDiego Semerene
Mahdi Fleifel's usage of a domestic archive of home-video images inherited from his father lends the doc a simultaneous sense of historical gravitas and intimacy.
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Time Out LondonCath Clarke
Time Out LondonCath Clarke
In this heartfelt film, Fleifel shows us the human cost of the conflict.