Palestine 36 (2025) Reviews & Ratings

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Palestine 36 holds a 7.8/10 average from 75 TMDB ratings.

With the British Empire trying to reconcile it’s own Palestinian agenda with those of the indigenous cotton farmers and a burgeoning, homeless, Jewish population arriving with expectations of their own homeland, this film follows events through the eyes of “Yusuf” (Karim Daoud Anaya) as he finds himself drawn into the conflict. He comes from a rural village but works part-time for a local publisher whose wife (Yasmi…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

By Oren Kessler, author of the book 'Palestine 1936'> I have a number of quarrels with this film but I’ve limited myself to three of its most egregious failings: > > The utter distortion of how Jews acquired land (whatever land they owned was paid for – not “transferred” over by perfidious Brits) > > The complete absence of a guy named Hajj Amin al-Husseini (maybe you’ve heard of him) > > The silencing of the nearly…
— Puffypoofy (1/10)

It is difficult to imagine that it's been about 90 years since the events depicted in this landmark historical film, yet the evil Zionist acts depicted in it have only gotten more evil, in both their scale and intensity. In a mood reminiscent of some of the more striking scenes in Braveheart (1995), Annemarie Jacir (writer-director), herself a Palestinian, takes a down-to-earth semi-documentary approach to recount t…
— druscilla_of_old (9/10)

Year 1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe and some arriving with nefarious Zionist-colonial ambitions, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain’s 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.

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