The Phoenician Scheme, The Encampments and the cinema of Palestine

On the latest episode of The CineSkinny, we take a wild trip with a ruthless tycoon (Benicio del Toro), his deeply moral daughter (Mia Threapleton) and his Swedish tutor-cum-secretary (Michael Cera) in Wes Anderson's breakneck espionage comedy The Phoenician Scheme. 

We come back down to earth with the urgent and enraging documentary The Encampments, which takes us inside the Palestine solidarity campus encampment at Columbia University that became a focal point last spring in the fight against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

And inspired by The Encampments and the upcoming SAFAR Film Festival, each member of the team recommends a great Palestinian film.

TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Julia & Julia; Taskmaster; Feel Good (1:40)
The Phoenician Scheme review (12:08)
The Encampments review (32:05)
Palestinian cinema: It Must Be Heaven, Gaza mon amour, 5 Broken Cameras (48:52)

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Recorded at Ground Floor, Leith – ehfm.live

Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license