''The Law in These Parts'' (

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: שלטון החוק) is a 2011

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, written and directed by

Ra'anan Alexandrowicz Ra'anan Alexandrowicz ( he, רענן אלכסנדרוביץ', born August 29, 1969, Jerusalem, Israel) is a director, screenwriter and editor. He is known for the documentary ''The Law in These Parts'' (2011), for which received the Grand Jury Awa ...

, about the

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operated by the

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in the

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. It won the Best Documentary award at the 2011

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and the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the

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. At the

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, ''The Law in These Parts'' won the "Special Jury Prize – International Feature". The documentary is divided into five chapters and reviews the legal history of Israel's occupation of Arab territories. Alexandrowicz interviews a number of the judges who were responsible for carrying out the orders of military commanders. Only judges who presided over occupation-related cases are interviewed; as Alexandrowicz noted, “This film is not about the people who broke the law. It’s about the people who wrote the law.”Quoted in Matt Goldberg, Review of ''The Law in These Parts''
Collider.com, 24 January 2012.

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