On Nov. 7, 2025, Annemarie Jacir’s historical drama "Palestine 36" opened the 13th edition of the Boğaziçi Film Festival. The film, which is a TRT coproduction, tells the story of the fictional village of al Basma near Ramallah and the town-village rift that was endemic in the Ottoman Empire at the start of the 20th century.
Director Annemarie Jacir (3rd R), producers Cat Villiers (R) and Ossama Bawardi (2nd L), and actors Saleh Bakri (3rd L) and Liam Cunningham (2nd R) attend a meeting for the 13th Boğaziçi Film Festival with the cast of "Palestine 36," Istanbul, Türkiye, Nov. 8, 2025. (AA Photo)
We follow the lives of several characters, including the villager Yusuf who works for the intellectual couple Kholoud and Amir, the widower Rabab, Palestinian dock workers in Jaffa, the ready-for-compromise landowners and a priest and his son.
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