D: Simone Bitton / 100 min / France / In English, Arabic, Hebrew with English

“I’m really new to talking about Israel/Palestine, so I don’t really know the political implications of my words,” wrote Rachel Corrie, early in her days as a peace activist in the Gaza Strip. Along with other members of the International Solidarity Movement, she was in Gaza to protest and to bear witness to the destruction of Palestinian homes by the Israel Defense Forces. On March 16, 2003, Corrie was killed attempting to obstruct an armed bulldozer from clearing land. Whether her death was intentional or an accident remains disputed. Regardless, both Corrie’s death and the words she left behind-drawn from journals and correspondence with family and friends-continue to have significant political implications. Simone Bitton’s rigorous cinematic autopsy of the events leading up to Corrie’s death is the most thorough account to date. Yet beyond an investigation of the facts, Rachel is a taut, intimate portrait of youth, idealism, and action. Sean Farnel.

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