Wicked Gravity: 'Bedouins in the City'
In the summer of 2014 Tawfiq Alnejada, a 14 year-old goat-herd, noticed something odd one day on the crags above his small village in Palestine.
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In the summer of 2014 Tawfiq Alnejada, a 14 year-old goat-herd, noticed something odd one day on the crags above his small village in Palestine.
There’s a phrase that’s often used to promote action movies: “heart-stopping.” It’s a pretty dramatic description that’s usually slapped on fictional stories with lots of shoot-‘em-up scenes and a bunch of crazy car chases. Sure, a lot of those movies are exciting to watch, but deep down, you know it’s all make-believe. They rarely live up to the hype.
Our editors listened to a podcast about Indigenous resistance, watched a film about Palestinian climbers, and checked a few more books off of our reading lists
Watch a group of climbers grow bonds too strong for a de facto war zone to break — and pry the film’s famously disenchanted American creator out of a familiar malaise.
Rock climber Tim Bruns appears in the film "Resistance Climbing" and also served as a producer.