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Premiere Screening
Advocate
Dir.: Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaiche | 108 minutes

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Screening in the presence of the filmmakers and its participants

Israel, Canada, Switzerland 2019 | 108 minutes | Hebrew, Arabic, English | Hebrew, English subtitles

Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from nonviolent demonstrators to armed militants. As an Israeli lawyer who has represented political prisoners for five decades, Tsemel, in her quest for justice, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits.