Patient, lucid and forceful, this debut feature by visual artist and filmmaker Inas Halabi is an examination of the Druze religious minority in occupied Palestine. Shot in and around the elevated towns of Daliyat al-Karmel and Isfiya, We No Longer Prefer Mountains takes the environment as a metaphor for the group’s fraught and complicated social position: just as much of their land has been appropriated, the population has been forced into Israeli military service and school systems with determined, ideological curriculums. Throughout, alongside conversations with community members, Halabi foregrounds footage shot in the landscape itself, with the material accompanied by field recordings, voices, radio broadcasts and rap. Intergenerational and dynamic, We No Longer Prefer Mountains offers a welcome perspective on a region typically discussed in binaries, giving space to elders who detail a history of both mistreatment and collaboration, while also taking the pulse of a younger generation increasingly eager to challenge their inherited position. 源自：https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/hot-docs-festival/films/2023/we-no-longer-prefer-mountains
