Judith Montell, Emmy Scharlatt
Israel
2014 | 1:01:00

This documentary follows a group of Palestinian women on the West Bank. Working together with the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, these courageous Palestinian women use video as a way to non-violently capture daily human rights violations in their villages. Their videos are uploaded raw to YouTube by B’Tselem’s Camera Project in Jerusalem. The footage has gone viral: it has swayed public opinion, been admitted as evidence in Israeli courts, and resulted in the convictions of abusive soldiers and their superiors. The documentary also focuses on the personal lives of Salam, Ayatt and Nariman, three young Palestinian women: their struggles between tradition and modernity, between invisibility and international media attention. Their portraits are built from animation, interviews and vérité footage, intercut with the alarming scenes that they film.