Chichester Cinema at New Park
The Lemon Tree
- Etz Limon
International Panorama: Israel
An entertaining, intelligent piece of cinema that draws on a very current issue – a multi-faceted drama straddling the Palestinian-Israeli chasm that reflects irony, generosity, anger and optimism.
The setting is Zur HaSharon, on the Israel-West bank border, where handsome 45 year old widow Salma (Hiam Abbass), from a Palestinian village, has a lemon grove her father planted half a century ago.
When smooth new Israeli defence minister Israel Navon (Doron Tavory) decides to build an upscale new house for him and his wife Mira (Rona Lipaz-Michael) – right up against the grove, on the Israeli side of the fence – Salma’s lemon trees are deemed a defence risk, and issues orders to uproot them.
But Salma, who scrapes a living from her lemons, decides to challenge the decision, and finds a Palestinian lawyer (Ali Suliman) who takes on her seemingly hopeless case. (subtitles).
Israel · 2008 · Eran Riklis · 106min
| Tue | 20 Jan | 16:00 | Book | |
| Wed | 21 Jan | 21:00 | Book | |
| Thu | 22 Jan | 18:15 | Book |
