The Law in These Parts

The Law in These Parts
File:The Law in These Parts Poster.jpg Film poster
Directed by	Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Produced by	Liran Atzmor
Written by	Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
Music by	Karni Postel
Cinematography	Shark De Mayo
Edited by	Neta Dvorkis
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew

The Law in These Parts (Hebrew: שלטון החוק) is a 2011 Israeli documentary film, written and directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, about the court system operated by the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank. It won the Best Documentary award at the 2011 Jerusalem Film Festival and the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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.”

See also

• The Gatekeepers

External links

• Official website
• Judging the judges - The Economist
• The Law in These Parts at IMDb
• Subjectivity and Objectivity in Israel-Palestine - Truthout

Awards
Preceded by Hell and Back Again	Sundance Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary 2012	Succeeded by A River Changes Course