TPFF: Zindeeq
Zindeeq Dir. Michel Khleifi (2009, Palestine, 85 mins.) Contradiction and ambiguity are at the heart of Zindeeq. The term “zindeeq” can, apparently, mean both ‘atheist’ and ‘freethinker.’ However, M (Mohammad Bakri), the atheist filmmaker and character at the heart of Zindeeq, finds himself lost in a long dark night of the soul in the middle …