Through the medium of film, Palestinians have found a space to address the paradox of being an invisible people or present absentees. Palestinian films provide them with a space in which they resist marginalization, non-presence, and address the concept of humiliation due to the loss of their homeland. those Palestinian directors like Elia Suleiman, Maha Haj, Shadi Srour and Ann Marie Jacir, are among those who were able to remain in their hometown, Nazareth. They have chosen to contest the marginalization of their people through their portrayal of Nazareth, by rendering their hometown the same iconic status, being the Palestinian city that resists negation as it holds on to the remnants of its Arab culture. in this paper, I focus on six Palestinian films all of which challenge the iconic status of Nazareth through its people which struggle to survive as Palestinian citizens in a Jewish state. All these films use humor, absurd and silence as cinematic means to describe the impossible reality that the residents of Nazareth as other Palestinians in Israel live in. the films are: Elia Suleiman's trilogy, Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996), Divine Intervention (2002), and The Time that Remains (2009),Personal Issues (Maha Haj,2017) Wajib (Ann Marie Jacir,2017), Holy Air (Shadi Srour,2018)

Authors:
Iris Fruchter-Ronen, University of Haifa, Israel

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Dr iris fruchter onen is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at University of Haifa in Israel

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