The Law in These Parts
| The Law in These Parts | |
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| File:The Law in These Parts Poster.jpg Film poster | |
| Directed by | Ra'anan Alexandrowicz |
| Written by | Ra’anan Alexandrowicz |
| Produced by | Liran Atzmor |
| Cinematography | Shark De Mayo |
| Edited by | Neta Dvorkis |
| Music by | Karni Postel |
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Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
| Country | Israel |
| Language | Hebrew |
The Law in These Parts (Hebrew: שלטון החוק) is a 2011 Israeli documentary film, written and directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, about the court system operated by the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank.[2] It won the Best Documentary award at the 2011 Jerusalem Film Festival and the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.[3] At the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, The Law in These Parts won the Special Jury Prize from the Best International Feature Documentary award jury.[4]
The documentary is divided into five chapters and reviews the legal history of Israel's occupation of Arab territories. Alexandrowicz interviews a number of the judges who were responsible for carrying out the orders of military commanders. Only judges who presided over occupation-related cases are interviewed; as Alexandrowicz noted, “This film is not about the people who broke the law. It’s about the people who wrote the law.”[5]
See also
References
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External links
- Official website
- Judging the judges - The Economist
- The Law in These Parts at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Subjectivity and Objectivity in Israel-Palestine - Truthout
- 2011 films
- 2010s Hebrew-language films
- Israeli documentary films
- Documentary films about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Documentary films about law
- 2011 documentary films
- Military courts
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- Anticolonial film
- Sundance Film Festival award–winning films
- Hebrew-language documentary films
- 2010s Israeli film stubs
- Political documentary film stubs