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The New Indian Express
|December 11, 2024
At first glance, Scandar Copti's new film, Happy Holidays, appears to go against our collective expectations of Palestinian cinema.
At first glance, Scandar Copti's new film, Happy Holidays, appears to go against our collective expectations of Palestinian cinema. It is not about conflict and killings, Nakba and Intifada, the occupation, enforced displacements and loss of home and ethnicity and identity issues. Yet it is about strife and oppression of another kind. True to his oeuvre, of underscoring the diversity of the Palestinian world, the Palestinian people and their experiences and examining the challenges faced by the Arab community in Israel, Copti focuses on one such family—and their larger social network—in present-day Haifa to bring issues of gender inequality, patriarchy, generational divides and social and cultural dissension to light.
This story is from the December 11, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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