Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi

Mograbi plays a fictional documentary filmmaker who is hired to produce a film on the celebration of Israel’s 50th anniversary of statehood. He discovers that this date is also his own 42nd birthday and decides to make a second film, reflection on his own mid-life crisis. When he is approached by Palestinian group who want him to document the destruction of Palestinian villages by Jewish settlers, he finds himself telling a third story: that of the Nakba (the disaster), as the Palestinian call the creation of the state of Israel.