Sombre documentary focuses on the former Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, and how he is becoming a Mandela-like figure since his imprisonment in 2002
Photograph: Journeyman PicturesPhotograph: Journeyman Picturesere is a film that offers something not generally on offer in the media: an envisioning of the future and a road map, or part of a road map, out of the present situation in Israel and Palestine.
During the long years since, he has gone on hunger strike, been beaten and abused in captivity; his grownup children have themselves been targeted and arrested and his wife Fadwa has been repeatedly refused permission to visit him.
It is precisely the injustice and judicial cruelty, and the decades-long accretion of international prestige and news value, that is grooming Barghouti for a future of political respectability. Placing a future leader in prison is a process of incubation, insulating them from the banal business of mistake-making and grubby deals and embarrassments that all active political leaders find piling up on their CVs.
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