Lifta is the only Arab village abandoned in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been completely destroyed or repopulated. Its ruins serve as a haunting backdrop for a confrontation between the two mega-narratives that underlie the Arab-Israeli conflict; the Nakba and the Holocaust.... (Full plot summary below)
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Lifta is the only Arab village abandoned in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been completely destroyed or repopulated. Its ruins serve as a haunting backdrop for a confrontation between the two mega-narratives that underlie the Arab-Israeli conflict; the Nakba and the Holocaust.
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| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleDaum acts as a thoughtful onscreen guide to what the picturesque hillsides and its stone remains represent. |
| Village VoiceDiana ClarkeGrounded in the art of listening, The Ruins of Lifta builds a powerful, personal, political conversation between Palestinians and Israelis looking to live differently. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenDirectors Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky may not solve Israeli-Palestinian animosities, but they find illuminating angles of exploration for one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. |
| Film-Forward.comNora Lee MandelThough sometimes infuriatingly naïve and myopic, documentary finally succeeds by opening up some space for honest dialogue. |
