EXCLUSIVE: Mark Ruffalo , Diego Luna , Susan Sarandon , Riz Ahmed , Ava Duvernay , Mira Nair , Julie Delpy , and Ramy Youssef are among a raft of stars lending their support to a conversations season taking inspiration from and in support of Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 .

Entitled ‘Talking Palestine 36 ’, the conversations are a joint initiative between Philistine Films, Jacir’s company with Ossama Bawardi, and the film’s U.S. distributors Watermelon Pictures .

The feature, which is Palestine’s official submission to the 98th Academy Awards, explores the rarely explored story of the 1936-39 Arab Revolt in which Palestinians rose up against Britain’s colonial rule.

“We created this series to open space for deeper, nuanced conversation about Palestine and its hi

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