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Three different narratives of Israel’s 1948 war of independence unfold side by side through the images of a British photojournalist, a Zionist movie producer and a Palestinian photographer in Liran Atzmor’s revelatory film about the ways images shape our view of history. Life Magazine photographer John Phillips’s stunning shots of the expulsion of Jews from Jerusalem’s Old City later found their fictional expression in Israel’s first internationally successful feature film, Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer; meanwhile, Ali Zaarour’s obscure photo album of the same period tells a another tale
