The Law in These Parts

{{pp|small=yes}} {{Infobox film | name = The Law in These Parts | image = The Law in These Parts Poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Ra'anan Alexandrowicz | producer = Liran Atzmor | writer = Ra’anan Alexandrowicz | starring = | music = Karni Postel | cinematography = Shark De Mayo | editing = Neta Dvorkis | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2011}} | runtime = 101 minutes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/law_in_these_parts |publisher=Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival |title=Hot Docs Film : Title : Law In These Parts |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425191346/http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/law_in_these_parts |archivedate=2012-04-25 }}</ref> | country = Israel | language = Hebrew | budget = }}'''''The Law in These Parts''''' (Hebrew: '''שלטון החוק''') is a 2011 Israeli documentary film, written and directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, about the court system operated by the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank.<ref>{{cite book |title=International Film Guide 2012 |first=Ian Hayden |last=Smith |year= 2012 |isbn= 978-1908215017 |page= 150 |publisher=Tantivy Press }}</ref> It won the Best Documentary award at the 2011 Jerusalem Film Festival and the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120130073542/http://www.haaretz.com/culture/israeli-documentary-on-west-bank-legal-system-wins-prestigious-sundance-prize-1.409775 Israeli documentary on West Bank legal system wins prestigious Sundance prize] Haaretz, 29 January 2012</ref> At the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, ''The Law in These Parts'' won the Special Jury Prize from the Best International Feature Documentary award jury.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hotdocs.ca/archive/awards-2012 |title=2012 Awards |publisher=Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival |accessdate=2016-08-03}}</ref>

The documentary is divided into five chapters and reviews the legal history of Israel's occupation of Arab territories. Alexandrowicz interviews a number of the judges who were responsible for carrying out the orders of military commanders. Only judges who presided over occupation-related cases are interviewed; as Alexandrowicz noted, “This film is not about the people who broke the law. It’s about the people who wrote the law.”<ref>[https://collider.com/sundance-2012-the-law-in-these-parts-review/ Quoted in Matt Goldberg, Review of ''The Law in These Parts''] Collider.com, 24 January 2012.</ref>

==See also== *''The Gatekeepers''

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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.thelawfilm.com/eng}} *[https://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2012/11/israeli-film?fsrc=nlw|newe|11-28-2012|4263398|36465891 Judging the judges] - The Economist *{{IMDb title|2125656|The Law in These Parts}} *[http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13388-subjectivity-in-israel-palestine Subjectivity and Objectivity in Israel-Palestine] - Truthout

{{S-start}} {{s-ach|aw}} {{Succession box | title=Sundance Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary | years=2012 | before=''Hell and Back Again'' | after=''A River Changes Course''}} {{end}} {{Sundance Grand Jury Prize World Cinema Documentary}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Law In These Parts}} Category:2011 films Category:2011 Hebrew-language films Category:2011 Israeli films Category:Israeli documentary films Category:Documentary films about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Category:Documentary films about law Category:2011 documentary films Category:Military courts Category:Israeli occupation of the West Bank Category:Anticolonial film Category:Sundance Film Festival award–winning films Category:Hebrew-language documentary films