Our most fundamental assumptions about the humiliations and threat of violence that Palestinians in the West Bank suffer in their daily lives, go beyond what is already proved true in this beautifully filmed and acted, simple story of an anniversary celebration. A man and his young daughter cross the border to buy his wife a present. There are no gun shots. No one dies but the future of this small family are all to easy to imagine and that's where the power of this sensitively told tale lies.
Review of The Present
