Lemon Tree (2008)

Recommended

Israel/Germany/France

Feature Film

Original Title: עץ לימו Lemon Tree شجره الليمون

Director: Eran Riklis

Writers: Suha Arraf, Eran Riklis

Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmann

Composer: Habib Shadah

Cast: Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Tarik Kopty, Amos Lavie, Amnon Wolf, Smadar Yaaron, Danny Leshman, Hili Yalon

When the Israeli Defence Minister moves into a new home next door to a middle-aged Palestinian widow, who runs a lemon tree farm, the secret services declares said widow’s land to be a security threat, issuing an order for her orchard to be cleared, but she refuses to take it lying down, taking her case to the supreme court, in Riklis’s involvingly political yet very human film. Iain.Stott