Movie Reviews – Miko Peled

“The Present” — A Painful Short Film Tells the Whole Story of What It Means to be Palestinian

on May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 By Miko Peled

In “The Present,” as throughout all of Palestine, soldiers, police officers, secret police, or Shabak agents, have the power — indeed they are instructed — to harass, humiliate, and take the lives of Palestinians in the most arbitrary fashion.

A Movie Speaks a Thousand Words. On the movie “To See If I’m Smiling”. By Miko Peled

on January 18, 2009January 18, 2009 By Miko Peled 9 Comments

The topic about which I wish to write is so disturbing that after scribbling a few facts and figures I found myself glaring at the screen unable to express my thoughts or feelings in any meaningful way. This has gone on for some time until on Christmas day I decided to do something. I shunned [...]