Tantura

Hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated amid the formation of the state of Israel. To Israelis, this was the War of Independence. Palestinians call it ’Al Nakba’ - the Catastrophe. In the 90s, research into a massacre that had allegedly occurred in the village of Tantura in 1948, was dismissed. Now, director Alon Schwarz revisits former Israeli soldiers of the Alexandroni Brigade as well as Palestinian residents in an effort to re-examine what happened in Tantura, and why ’Al Nakba’ is still a taboo in Israeli society.