New international features and classic comedies share the slate today. Writer-director Annemarie Jacir (“Wajib”) presents a momentous event in the Palestinian struggle for freedom in “Palestine 36,” opening Friday in Bay Area theaters. The exhilarating historical drama, an inspiring portrait of dignity and resistance, mixes fiction with archival footage, taking viewers through year one of the 1936-1939 revolt in Mandatory Palestine by […]
