Leila and the Wolves (1984)

Untimely Review #3

In a song that plays over the opening credits of Heiny Srour’s Leila and the Wolves, a woman croons in Arabic: we do not blame the wolves for attacking the flock, we blame the shepherds for abandoning it. This is a movie about what happens when the shepherds (world powers) are derelict in the line of duty and the flock (Arabs) is left to defend itself from the wolves (settler colonists); or, more specifically, what role the females of the flock play in their self-defense.