Maryse Gargour

The film documents the late 19th-century birth of Zionism and its repercussions for Palestinians. Brings together rarely-seen footage of Palestine before 1948 juxtaposed with original source documents, eyewitness accounts, stunning choreography, moving testimonials, and interviews with historians. This award-winning film shows that the expulsion of the indigenous Arab population from Palestine was far from an accidental result of the 1948 war, shining a spotlight on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist movement.

An encounter with a lost land - Palestine from 1928 up to 1952 and beyond. Personal correspondences, diplomatic archives, consular correspondences, audiovisual archives, newspapers and interviews with the children of Western diplomats who lived in Jaffa, Palestine at the time. The first-hand testimonies of life before, during, and after the 1948 Nakba powerfully recreate everyday life in the urban center of Jaffa at a fateful time in Palestinian history.