Palestine 36
1936. As villages across Mandate Palestine rise against British rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping an increasingly fascist Europe, and Palestinian calls for independence, all sides spiral towards inevitable colllision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.
In this multi-strand drama, Yusuf and his compatriots find themselves caught up amid their nation's fight for freedom as the war between a people and an empire is pushed to a breaking point.
Festivals & awards
TIFF Toronto International Filmfestival: Gala Screening
Palestine official submission for Best International Feature at the Oscars 2026
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«Palestine 36 offers a great breadth of knowledge and history […] The entire cast is fantastic.» The Film Stage
«Veteran Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir […] goes back even further and deeper into the archive, the social tapestries, and colonizer tactics, to ask how Palestine as we know it today might have come to originate in the anti-British Palestinian Revolt of 1936-1939.» IndieWire
«Annemarie Jacir weaves a captivating and very instructive fresco […]: a committed choral film, weaved with much narrative agility, returning to a sadly decisive historical chapter for the Palestinian people. Naturally passionate, committed, resistant and rather feminist, the film mixes together the right doses of melodrama and historical reenactment.» Cineuropa