Suha Arraf Articles

Based on actual events, Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree (no connection to Sandy Tolan's novel The Lemon Tree), which opens today in the Los Angeles area, chronicles a Palestinian widow's fight to prevent the Israeli army from razing her lemon grove. The problem is that all those lemon trees are located right next door to the brand new house — actually, "fortress" would be a better [...]

LEMON TREE: Q&A with Eran Riklis Part I Along those lines, the men in charge in Lemon Tree don't come across in a very positive light. A bossy male security agent demands the destruction of the lemon grove. A bossy Palestinian man threatens Salma because of her relationship with her lawyer. The defense minister is obsessed with his career and may be having an affair [...]

2008 Asia-Pacific Screen Awards 2008 Asia-Pacific Film Festival: Nov. 2008   Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy, and written by Dvortsevoy and Gennadi Ostrovsky, Tulpan is set in the steppes of Kazakhstan, where a young man hopes to find himself a wife and settle down as a sheepherder. Times, however, have changed.   Best Feature Film Tulpan Best Animated Feature Film Waltz with Bashir Best Documentary Ggeutnaji [...]