I have several issues with this film, but I’ve restricted myself to highlighting three significant shortcomings: The way land acquisition by Jews is portrayed is completely inaccurate; any land they owned was purchased, not “transferred” through actions of the British administration. A notable figure, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, is entirely absent from the narrative. There’s a near total lack of representation f…

The film portrays events through the perspective of “Yusuf” (Karim Daoud Anaya), set against a backdrop of British colonial efforts to balance their own interests in Palestine with those of local cotton farmers and a growing population of Jewish immigrants seeking a homeland. Yusuf originates from a rural village but holds a part-time job at a publishing house where the wife (Yasmine Al Massri) of his employer secret…