This year's Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner engages in a dialogue with the Kafkaesque legislation which the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are living under. A system enforced by the Israeli military and which was meant to be temporary, but which over time has established itself as applicable law. Instead of taking a confrontational approach, "The Law in These Parts" makes the case with simple and effective means. A TV studio and a green screen set the stage for in-depth interviews with the lawyers behind the law and who themselves often find it difficult to make head or tails of it. Based on several years of thorough research, the director Ra'Anan Alexandrowicz enters into a constructive dialogue with the ageing gentlemen, while black-and-white archive photos from the Occupied Territories appear on a green screen behind them as a reminder of the reality regulated by the paragraphs. We are as far from a bloated courtroom drama as one can imagine. Both sides must instead nod approvingly to a film, which with its confidence in dialogue instills hope that it is still possible to lead an intelligent debate on a sensitive issue.

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