Interview: Annemarie Jacir – Palestine 36
With her sweeping and ambitious fourth feature, Palestine 36, Annemarie Jacir gives emotional weight to the history books, excavating the roots of nearly a century of loss, injustice, and colonial brutality. Through interwoven stories of villagers, laborers, and intellectuals, she crafts a richly human portrait of resistance, identity, home, and displacement—revealing how the long shadow of the 1936–1939 uprising continues to shape Palestinian life today. As in Salt of This Sea (2008), When I Saw You (2012), and Wajib (2017), Jacir grounds political upheaval in personal histories and lived realities, but here she pushes further back into the past to show how inseparable contemporary Palestinian experience is from this earlier moment.… Read the rest
