Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

the jungle book


Speed Sisters Movie


Speed Sisters Movie

A portrait of Palestine's first all-female motor racing team, and their lives under Israeli occupation

In the unlikely event that the Palestinian people make it on to Western TV screens, it’s almost always as victims: refugees, murdered protestors, statistics in the wake of a bombing campaign. Which only makes a doc like ‘Speed Sisters’ all the more important: here’s proof that, even under occupation, life goes on for thousands of ordinary people. Not that the five women profiled here are anything like ordinary: they are the West Bank’s only all-female car racing team, tackling religious prejudice and the weight of gender expectation by driving very fast and not giving a damn what anyone thinks.

When you look at various woman