Film

Bristol Palestine Film Festival: What Walaa Wants

Director
Christy Garland
Certificate
TBA
Running Time
89 mins

What Walaa wants is to dodge marriage, earn her own salary and become a policewoman. But she’s been raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank while her mother was in prison, which means her ambition causes a certain amount of domestic friction.

https://vimeo.com/261905417

Christy Garland‘s intimate documentary follows Walaa from ages 15 to 21, offering the first-ever look inside the Palestinian police academy. It’s screened as part of the Bristol Palestine Film Festival.

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By robin askew, Friday, Nov 16 2018

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