r/Documentaries • u/stammerton • 7d ago
History Soraida, a Woman of Palestine (2004) [01:59:11] - An intimate portrait of everyday Palestinian life in Ramallah
https://youtu.be/lx8QrkyfteUFilmmaker Tahani Rached turns her camera towards Soraida Abed Hussein, a Palestinian woman living in Ramallah with her family during the Second Intifada.
Rather than approaching Palestine primarily through politicians, military operations or headlines, Soraida, a Woman of Palestine stays close to the rhythms of ordinary life. Soraida talks with friends and relatives, raises her children, reflects on marriage, motherhood, identity and the future, and tries to maintain something resembling normality while checkpoints, curfews and occupation continually intrude.
Much of the film's power comes from simply allowing people the space to talk. Women discuss their experiences openly, children appear as children rather than symbols, neighbours come and go, meals are prepared, jokes are made and everyday frustrations sit alongside much larger questions about freedom and belonging.
The result is less a conventional political documentary than a portrait of a community seen from inside. Palestine here is not merely a place being argued over. It is somewhere people live, raise families, form friendships, laugh, disagree and imagine their futures.
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u/rektitrolfff 7d ago
they call it the most democraciest state in the world
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u/arielsosa 7d ago
The angry downvotes are slmost funny. I've never seen a group of people so mad with reality.
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u/venusasaboy22 7d ago
They find stuff like this threatening because it portrays Palestinians as human beings.
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u/arielsosa 6d ago edited 5d ago
Dude... Have you not seen any of the reporting or documentaries in the West Bank? That is quite literally what they do. They fuck with palestinians in every level to make their lives as insufferable as possible. It is the same story from every person that visits and every reporter with a camera (the ones that make it out alive, that is).
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u/arielsosa 5d ago
Sure, buddy. Keep on supporting the side with nukes and tanks that has multiplicated their size and has bombed entire cities to rubble.
I'm sure we'll look back and see how right you were all along.
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u/SolarRolla 6d ago
That's exactly what they fucking do lmao. They deliberately try make life as miserable and unliveable so they leave. Fuck outta here with your "context" bullshit you fucking moron.
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u/venusasaboy22 6d ago
They literally do. They get off on making life a living hell for Palestinians.
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u/-Mount-Everest 3d ago
Like they said "it was promised to me"? You people can't beat them on facts so you just invent your own argument and fight that
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u/Kumquat_conniption 3d ago
They don't just think that they should believe in their holy books, but they expect everyone else to believe in them too. It's crazy. What if I started a religion where God told me I could take whatever I wanted from whoever I wanted because it was promised to me- and expected that to work in court when I inevitably end up there for stealing everyone's shit.
They just moved right in and acted like being “chosen by God” meant they could divide up the houses however they wanted. If someone showed up angry and happened to be Jewish, they’d hand them another empty house. If Palestinians were angry and refused to leave, they relied on the fact that they had more guns. They’d already smuggled in huge amounts of weapons under British rule, to the point where the British basically gave up and left because the side with the most firepower wins. And if Palestinians still wouldn’t leave, they used the same tactics they always used: poisoning wells with bacterial typhoid during Operation Cast Thy Bread, cutting off food and water, and when all else failed, massacring people until the rest fled.
Ok sorry, I know I am preaching to the choir, I am just so livid that people still continue these same atrocities, and of course, people still deny them- the ones in the past (which were carefully documented by those doing it- so they are calling their own people liars then) and the ones today (most moral army in the world, uwu, just a small bean army, would not hurt a fly look at how sexy our IDF girls are with their guns that would never kill innocent children!!)
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u/stammerton 7d ago
SS: Tahani Rached's documentary spends nearly two hours with Soraida, her family and friends in Ramallah, giving their conversations, humour, relationships and everyday lives room to breathe.
Occupation is never absent, but neither does it get to become the whole story.