Palestine Will Win

France | 1969 | 28 min | Documentary “Palestine Will Win” is regarded as the first French documentary film made in support of the Palestinian liberation movement. Shot in 1969 in a student dorm, the film blends historical testimonies by Palestinians, photographs, stock footage, maps, and music. The documentary centers on the 1968 Battle of Karameh, while also tracing the complex story of the past five decades of Palestinian resistance against oppression and colonialism. A film by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan works in Niger (he has Nigerian and French citizenships), and is among the founders of LASDEL, Laboratory for Study and Research on Social Dynamics and Local Development, in Niamey. He is also Professor of Anthropology at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Emeritus director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France).