DUBAI Director Annemarie Jacir’s “Palestine 36” premiered this week at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival at a gala screening.
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The film was partially funded by Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Fund.
Set on the outskirts of Jerusalem, “Palestine 36” tells the story of the Arab uprising against the British mandate.
The official logline reads: “In 1936, as villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest.
