Poster
Obaida  (2019)
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?


N/A|24 Apr, 2019|7 min
Released
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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Keywords
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
children's rights
censorship
hope for future
extremist
awareness
abuse of power
resilience
lack of awareness
therapeutic