Where Olive Trees Weep (2024)

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Synopsis

Dir: Maurizio Benazzo, Zaya Benazzo. Arabic/English-language Documentary. Palestinians living in the West Bank territories discuss their experiences of loss, trauma, and the struggle to survive under occupation.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of sexual expletive and variations in non-sexual context, some in an aggressive context; infrequent use of cursing
• Frequent portrayals of hand-to-hand, gun, and weapons violence, most in a civil unrest context - little blood
• Frequent references to civil unrest, suffering, injury, torture, death, and dying - some detail
• Infrequent depictions of injury and corpses, some involving children - no blood, little detail
• Infrequent depictions of tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Perspectives on life under occupation
• Coping with loss
• Survival and perseverance

Classification rationale

Rated PG for mature subject matter and violence

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