Directed by Philip Rizk • 2009 • Palestine • 28’

This Palestinian Life surveys rural resistance in occupied Palestine: in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, in the Jordan Valley, and in the south Hebron hills. The film was made by Egyptian-German journalist Philip Rizk, who lived in Palestine from 2004 to 2007, talking with those struggling under the daily violence and oppression of Israel’s occupation, and recording their stories. The project was political, a sort of ad hoc social history of agrarian resistance. Rizk narrates his wish to “capture the stories of villagers because these examples of sumud … are the most rarely told.” This film begins to fix that problem.

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