Credits: screenplay: Eyal Sivan; director of photography: David Zarif, Rémi Lainé, Shafir Sarousi, Vincent Fooy; editor: Audrey Maurion; sound: Oren Raviv, Jean-Jacques Quinet, Asher Saraga; producer: Arik Bernstein , Osnat Trabelsi; production: Alma Films, Trabelsi Productions;

Country: Israel, France, Belgium, Germany

Year: 2009

Running time: 88

Colour: Colour

Format: 35 mm

In the past, Israeli activist Sivan has exposed such shameful sites as nightmarish Palestinian refugee camps. Here he uses mostly archival footage and still photographs going back to the 19th century to track the appropriation of the image of the luscious orange from the Palestinians by the Israelis. Of course it is a means of graphically explaining the politics of the region, but the footage itself is fascinating. This major export went from being the pride of the Palestinians to a symbol of Zionism, in many respects. He intercuts these old films with contemporary interviews with astute historians, both Jewish and Arab, to solidify his arguments. Howard Feinstein