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The story takes place immediately after the Six-Day War, in which the Negev Desert, the Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem, which had been granted special status by the UN in 1948, were annexed by Israel. At the same time, the musical contributions\u2014Palestinian resistance songs, pop from the 1960s, a song by Cat Stevens, the traditional \u201cDabke\u201d dance, and some oud sounds\u2014lend the film artistic and cultural credibility.<br \/>\nPerhaps the film was best summed up by the 2013 <em>Berlinale<\/em>: \u201cWhen I Saw You\u201d tells of a child&#8217;s ability to prevent adults from resigning themselves to something when there is still hope for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45076,"template":"","movie_year":[99],"movie_genre":[629],"movie_cat":[],"festival":[],"class_list":["post-45073","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-99","movie_genre-spielfilm-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When I Saw You - Internationales Frauen Film Fest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie\/when-i-saw-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When I Saw You - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1967. 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