Screened as part of NZIFF 2012

The Law in These Parts 2011

Shilton ha chok

Directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz

Incisive award-winning doco interrogates the framing and persistence of the military legal system that rules Palestinians living under occupation in the same territory as Israeli citizens who live under civilian law.

Germany / Israel / USA In Hebrew with English subtitles
101 minutes Blu-ray / Colour and B&W

Producer

Liran Atzmor

Photography

Shark De Mayo

Editor

Neta Dvorkis

Music

Karni Postel

With

Justice Meir Shamgar
,
Dov Shefi
,
Abraham Pachter
,
Alexander Ramti
,
Jair Rabinovich
,
Justice Amnon Strashnov
,
Ilan Katz
,
Oded Pesensson
,
Jonathan Livny

Festivals

Sundance, San Francisco 2012

Awards

Grand Jury Prize (World Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2012

Putting the law itself on trial, this incisive documentary interrogates the framing and persistence of the military legal system that rules Palestinians living under occupation while Israeli citizens in the same territory live under civilian law. The Israeli Defense Force has applied military law in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for 45 years, as if the process had been legitimised by the passage of time. Filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz has persuaded the architects of the system – military judges and attorneys, including a former president of the Israeli Supreme Court – to submit, with varying degrees of sang froid, to interviews in which they are asked to consider the intent of the laws they crafted. He questions their relationship to justice, the rule of law and the problematic notion of a Jewish and Democratic State in which not everyone is Jewish. — BG