Apparition

Lyd was once a thriving, bustling Palestinian metropolis until it was conquered during the war that established the State of Israel in 1948 and renamed Lod. In the process of becoming an Israeli city, hundreds of Lyd's Palestinian residents were massacred by Israeli forces, and most of the city's 50,000 Palestinian residents were forced out of their homes. Today the city has a Jewish majority and a Palestinian minority and is divided by racism and violence. The film 

 dares to imagine an alternate reality where the Israeli occupation never occured and Palestinians of all religions (Muslims, Christians, and Jews) live free from the trauma of the past and the violence of the present. 

The story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world – what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become.

