Jackals and Arabs
Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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10m
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Daniéle Huillet | 11 mins | 2011
Kafka’s 1917 short story of the same name, written on the eve of the British Government’s Balfour Declaration, which announced support for the creation of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, is the source of Straub’s “Kammerspiel comedy about the Middle East quagmire… an epic staged in a living room.” (Film Comment)
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