Paradise Lost

At a glance

Paradise Lost, is a 2003 Israeli movie, directed by Ibtisam Mara'ana. with a runtime of 54 minutes.

Overview

Al-Furaydis, Al-Firdaws Al-Mafqud (Paradise Lost) is a Palestinian documentary in which the director turns her camera on her own village of Paradise — a picturesque fishing community on the Mediterranean that exists today as a Palestinian enclave within Israel, carrying buried histories of massacre and displacement. As she digs into her village's hidden past, she is warned by her mother not to follow in the footsteps of Sou'ad, a legendary figure accused of PLO activism and imprisoned in the 1970s. But the deeper the director researches, the more Sou'ad becomes not a cautionary tale but an inspiration. A personal cinematic diary about recovering lost history and redefining modern womanhood within the weight of tradition.

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