2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

The Palestine Exception

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE // FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE*

Documentary Social Justice
  • The Palestine Exception
  • The Palestine Exception
  • The Palestine Exception
  • Mawtini (My Homeland)

The Palestine Exception

As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplines explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people identify with the Palestinian cause. The documentary unfolds as a story of college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression, places where personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways.

  • DIRECTOR
    Jan Haaken, Jennifer Ruth
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    71 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States
Pre-Feature Short: A Michigan Frontrunner

Mawtini (My Homeland)

Together Nawal, a young Palestinian woman, and Tanya, an older Indigenous woman, start a guerrilla garden on the lawn of their apartment building and battle middle management to make it to harvest.

  • DIRECTOR
    Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    19 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Arabic, English
  • COUNTRY
    Canada
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