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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Present is a 2020 short film (24 minutes) from Palestine, directed by Farah Nabulsi.Yusuf is a husband and father. It's his anniversary, and he is going out to get his wife Noor a present, and he's bringing his daughter Yasmine along for some ancillary shopping.That sounds like an easy plan, but because Yusuf lives in the occupied West Bank of Palestine, it isn't. Yusuf lives in the West Bank, so, to go shopping he and Yasmine have to squeeze their way through an overcrowded pedestrian bridge before reaching a checkpoint, where Yusuf has to go through a humiliating detention and search at the hands of the Israeli Defense Force. Father and daughter finally make it through, do their grocery shopping, and get Noor's present—a new refrigerator. But they still have to go back, which means they have to suffer through an even more degrading checkpoint encounter with the IDF.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: The life of a Palestinian under Israeli occupation, where the most mundane tasks require a humiliating ideal.
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: Yusuf and a mean IDF soldier are talking in English as Yusuf tries to convince the IDF soldier to let him through. When Yusuf says "Ask Ali, he knows me," the mean IDF soldier says to his buddies, "This clown thinks he's friends with Ali!", in Hebrew. Then he puts Yusuf in a cage.
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Dramatic Gun Cock: An IDF soldier works the action of his machine gun at the checkpoint at the end, when Yusuf is screaming in rage as the soldiers scream back at him and it seems events will take a tragic turn.
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