Wedding in Galilee (Arabic: عرس الجليل, romanized: Urs al-Jalil) is a 1987 film directed by Michel Khleifi.
[2] Ultimately, the bride Samia takes her own virginity so that the stained wedding sheets can be displayed, bringing the ceremony to an end.
[2] Writing for the Middle East Research and Information Project, Ella Shohat stated that Khleifi's film "largely transcends traditional mass-media discourse which would reduce the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to 'peace-loving Israelis' versus 'violence-prone Arabs'".
As in Gillo Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers (1966), Khleifi portrays the individual members of the military as normal, even sympathetic, preferring to emphasize the oppressive policies themselves rather than the moral malignancy of the executioners.
[2] Shohat also contrasts Khleifi's vision of a Palestinian liberatory feminism with Israeli feminist discourse, "which views women soldiers as liberated women but fails to see the irony of a liberation linked to military oppression", suggesting that Israelis "have to denude themselves of their soldierly masculinity in order to live in harmony with the Arabs", quoting the groom's sister who tells a soldier "you will have to take off your uniform if you want to dance";[2] Karen Orton writing for Another Magazine likewise describes how characters outside of typical masculine society "play a vital role binding the community together as well as reminding a new generation of their past and possibilities for the future in these long fought over hills".