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Advocate / Film Movement ; in coproduction with Hot 8, CBC/Radio Canada, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, SWR, NDR, BBC/Storyville, EOdocs ; in collaboration with Blue Ice Docs ; Home Made Docs, Filmoption, Close Up Films present ; a film by Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaïche ; producers, Philippe Bellaïche, Rachel Leah Jones, Paul Cadieux, Joël Bertossa ; screenwriter, Rachel Leah Jones.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Tsemel, Leah.
- Lawyers--Israel--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Palestinian Arabs--Civil rights--Israel.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Palestinian Arabs--Civil rights.
- Israel.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (115 min.)) : sound, color, with black and white sequences
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Film Movement, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In Hebrew, Arabic and English, with English subtitles
- System Details:
- Streaming video file
- digital
- video file
- MPEG-4
- Summary:
- Since the early 1970s, Jewish-Israeli attorney Lea Tsemel has made a career out of defending Palestinians in Israeli courts: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants, including suicide bombers. In ADVOCATE, filmmakers Philippe Bellaiche and Rachel Leah Jones deconstruct this controversial figure who will defend anyone who opposes what she describes as an illegal occupation of Palestine. Tsemel is by her own words "non-discriminating" about who she represents: her goal is fair representation within a court system that she believes is rigged against Palestinian prisoners, and she reserves judgment even of those guilty of terrible crimes. But her perspective goes beyond criminal justice -- as the film outlines, Tsemel has been committed to left-wing advocacy all her life. Tsemel insists that Israeli law is fundamentally flawed when it comes to Palestinian criminals, on the basis that an occupier has no right to tell the occupied how they should resist. ADVOCATE follows Tsemel as she takes on two new cases, and illustrates her decades-long clash with the Israeli establishment.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Philippe Bellaïche; editor, Yael Bitton ; producers, Maryse Rouillard (Filmoption International), Flavia Zanon (Close Up Films)
- Notes:
- Description based on videodisc (DVD) version record
- Other Format:
- Videodisc (DVD) version: Advocate.
- OCLC:
- 1162848162
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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