The Law in These Parts

The Record and the Narrative. The Documentary Cinema of Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, born in Jerusalem in 1969, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. His award-winning cinematic investigations into questions of law, power and testimony in Israel and Palestine are shown at all the world’s major festivals. “The Law in These Parts” (2011) received the award for best international documentary film at the Sundance Festival. “The Viewing Booth” (Der Spiegel, 2021) screened in the Forum of the Berlinale and was voted best documentary of the year by Rolling Stone. Alexandrowicz is currently working on a new project as a fellow in the ConTrust excellence project at Goethe University. As part of this fellowship, the DFF is showing three of his films, each with an introduction and subsequent discussion with experts.

Can a modern democracy maintain a military occupation without damaging its values? In a dialog with the responsible military lawyers, “The Law in These Parts” traces the framework conditions that were established in Israel in the decades following the Six-Day War in 1967 to legally safeguard the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

Film screening of “The Law in These Parts”, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel 2011, 101 min.

With an introduction by Laliv Melamed, Professor of Digital Film Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt, followed by a discussion with the director and Itamar Mann, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Haifa.

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A series of events by ConTrust, DFF and the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University