Minor Detail - Adania Shibli

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949 one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700 000 people - and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this 'minor detail' of history. A haunting meditation on war violence and memory Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession life under occupation and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.