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Over the last 20 years, Palestinian film directors have released a variety of movies that collectively form a cinematic archive of Palestinians’ struggle for survival and their native land. The New Arab has curated a list of the ten Palestinian movies we think you should watch. Paradise Now (2005) Director: Hany Abu-Assad Paradise Now tells the story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two lifelong friends from Nablus who have been recruited as suicide bombers. The film is a realistic depiction of the situation in the Palestinian territories that illuminates why young men would de…