"Even the film’s directing team, composed of Palestinian Israeli citizen Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland, an American Jew, speaks to its dream of peaceful coexistence. And yet when a theater in Jaffa attempted to screen it in early October, police shut it down. Shortly thereafter, Israeli minister of culture Miki Zohar banned the film." #Lyd #Palestine #Cinema #SciFi cc: @theforward https://forward.com/culture/673651/lyd-israel-palestine-lod-documentary-ban/
This 'sci-fi documentary' dreams of peace. Israel banned it. – The Forward
'Lyd' follows the violent history of the eponymous Palestinian city, now the Israeli Lod, but dreams of an alternate, peaceful reality.The Forward