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Lemon Tree

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Year of participation	2008
Program	Feature Competition

Producer(s)	Eran Riklis
Director(s)	Eran Riklis
Script	Eran Riklis
Director of Photography	Rainer Klausmann
Production designer	Miguel Markin
Music by	Habib Shadah
Sound	As Milo
Edit	Tova Asher
Cast	Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz, Doron Tavori
Production company(-ies)	Eran Riklis Productions MACT Productions Riva Film Heimatfilm

Synopsis

Salma, a Palestinian woman lives on a territory adjacent to the green line [the pre-1967 border between Israel and the West Bank] whose new neighbor is the defense minister of Israel. This leads the security authorities to immediately regard the lemon grove of Salma as a threat to the security of the minister and his family and to order the uprooting of the trees. To their surprise, she retains a young Palestinian attorney and engages in a legal battle that goes all the way to the Israeli High Court of Justice.

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Audience Award (Berlin IFF, Panorama 2008)

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