Michel Khleifi has chosen to film two women, Farah Hatoum, a widow in her fifties who, ever since the authorities confiscated her family’s lands in 1947, has been working in an Israeli factory in Nazareth, and Sahar Khalifeh, a young writer and teacher in the Israeli occupied West Bank, to make a film about the occupation and the condition of Palestinian women. The aim is not to encourage them to talk about politics, but rather to give us an insight into their point of view and their way of life. Michel Khleifi scrupulously films their daily rituals — focusing on their faces and gestures —, their conversations with relatives, or their conversations with the director, always about very specific things they deal with on a daily basis. By showing us these little “nothings” Khleifi puts at our disposal all the tools we need in order to feel what it is to be a woman in an Arab society, or to live under occupation without being able to cultivate the land of your ancestors. He helps us get a sense of the Palestinian’s situation and makes us question the nature of freedom “from the inside”. (Vanina Vignal)