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TOMORROW’S FREEDOM
2022
|Documentary
|96'
by Georgia Scott & Sophia Scott

Synopsis
In Tomorrow’s Freedom, made over the course of 5 years, filmmaking sisters Georgia and Sophia Scott gain intimate access to the family of imprisoned Palestinian political leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison.
Through the Barghouthi family and a collage of in-depth interviews from the people who know Marwan best, Tomorrow’s Freedom takes you on a brutally honest and transformative journey into the heart of the Israel Palestine conflict, speaking to Palestinians and Israelis.
Tomorrow’s Freedom took center stage at the 2022 Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival (AJB DOC) in Sarajevo, and as Edhem Foco, the director of the festival, said: "It's a compelling narrative, crafted not by Arabs or Palestinians, but by British women.”
It formed part of the Official Selection of the 2022 Sheffield DocFest.
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THE DIRECTOR
Georgia Scott is an experienced producer, director and editor. Her first documentary film, set in Kenya, explored the threats facing a unique Swahili community on Lamu Island on the border with Somalia. Georgia graduated with a BA (hons) degree in Production Design from the University of the Arts, London, in 2011. She went on to manage a product design company before setting up GroundTruth Productions with Sophia Scott in 2012.
Sophia Scott is an experienced producer, director and cinematographer and has worked extensively as a self-shooting camerawoman across the globe on projects for the BBC, UN, PBS, CBC, The New York Times and Human Rights Watch, among others. After completing a foundation year at the European Film College in Denmark in 2002, she went on to study Documentary Film and Television, graduating with a BA (Hons) from the International Film School of Wales before moving to Kenya, where she spent the first 6 years of her film career.
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Review
Tomorrow’s Freedom, by Sophia and Georgia Scott, presents a moving account of the life of activist and political leader Marwan Barghouti, who became a symbol of the Palestinian resistance during his ongoing imprisonment in Israel. In the film, we learn about his story through an intimate perspective and testimonies from his family and inner circle, who have untiringly campaigned for his release. His wife Fadwa Ibrahim—a lawyer and member of the Fatah council—has traveled the world calling for his freedom for over twenty years. Their accounts are juxtaposed with interviews with human rights activists, journalists, lawyers and political figures from Palestine, Israel and South Africa.
Barghouti’s first stance as an activist followed the killing of his dog by the Israeli occupation forces when he was 12 years old. From then on, he remained active in politics, first as a student leader and then as a member of parliament, where he played an important role in the Oslo Peace Accords during the 1990s. He was arrested by Israel in 2002 during the Second Intifada and after 1000 days in solitary confinement, he was tried and convicted of murder with 5 life sentences. Barghouti has maintained that his trial was illegitimate. Over his life, he has positioned his struggle as a fight against the occupation, not against Israel, claiming that no security could be achieved with occupation, that peace was the only possible way. Over his years of imprisonment, he became a leader of the prisoners’ movement, advocating for education in prisons as a way to keep the struggle and hope alive. In 2017, he led a 43-day-long hunger strike.
Throughout the film, we are presented with a determined, high-spirited and generous man able to transmit serenity and courage to the Palestinian people. The documentary ends with Barghouti’s statement: “They can't break our will for freedom”.
Tomorrow's Freedom offers a portrait of a man with the characteristics of a leader potentially capable of bringing together a fragmented Palestinian society towards a future of peace and freedom.
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Isa Gutierrez Sanchez
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The texts have been produced by the network Filmmakers for Palestine gr.
*We consider Filmmakers to be every person who designs, implements, analyzes and teaches cinema: from editors to assistant directors, from lighting technicians to film critics, from viewers to programmers. A film is created by every gaze that shapes it.
Editing & Translation Team: Sofia Grigoriadou, Christina Phoebe, Maximillien Luc Proctor, Sophia Thomopoulos
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