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Lemon Tree

עץ לימון

2008

A Palestinian widow who tends the lemon grove she inherited fights a lonely legal battle when the Israeli defense minister moves in next door and the security services order her trees cut down. A quietly powerful drama of borders, dignity, and dispossession.

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An Israeli-Palestinian drama about a Palestinian widow's lemon grove beside the Israel/West Bank boundary.

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