Work, Place (1998)
- Original title
- Makom, Avoda
- Directed by
- Nurith Aviv
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- Israel
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary looks at farm work in a village in the Jordan Valley in the 1990s. After the intifada, local farmers stopped hiring Palestinians and instead brought in Thai workers. It shows how cheap labor fits into the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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