“The British role in Palestine is complicated…but I don’t think it helps anyone to ignore history,” Michael Winterbottom said during an interview late last year to promote his new film, Shoshana. “Especially when that history is something that is still very active and alive today, it has huge direct consequences.” It’s an admirable position for a British filmmaker working in an industry more willing to produce films about Britain’s heroic past during World War II than its contentious, colonial role in creating fractures and fissures across the SWANA region. Shoshana, written by Winterbottom, L…