Yisroel Goldstein, the Chabad rabbi who began a 14-month prison sentence in February after pleading guilty to tax and wire fraud charges, is out early.
A political family drama
Is he a terrorist or a freedom fighter? Whatever the audience might feel, the main protagonist of the film Eyes of a Thief is portrayed first and foremost as a father searching for his lost daughter. The Palestinian-Jordanian director Najwa Nijjar brings us a family drama that doesn t shy away from making political statements. By Laura Pannasch
Water gushes upwards out of a pipe in a big arc like a fountain. The final scene in Eyes of a Thief suggests liberation and relief and is in stark contrast to the core themes of the rest of the film, namely the boundaries and lack of freedom of life under Israeli occupation.