
Obaida
What does it feel like to be led away from your home by a soldier, while blindfolded? What happens when a military occupation looms over an entire childhood?
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. For these young detainees, few rights are guaranteed, even on paper. After release, the experience of detention continues to shape and mark former child prisoners’ path forward.
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- Released
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- Language
- Arabic
- child abuse
- right and justice
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- war crimes
- refugee
- cooking
- trauma
- freedom of speech
- civil rights
- childhood trauma
- press freedom
- racism
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Premiere24 Apr 2019
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Obaida was released on 24 April 2019.
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