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Summary
With the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, Precious Life chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. Each must face their most profound biases as they inch towards a possible friendship in an impossible reality.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+19)
Critics 100Audiences 81GoodWatch 91
Tomatometer100%
Audience score88%
IMDb7.3
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 8 countries, rent or buy in 32 more
Released
2011
March 23, 2011
15 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryDramaFamilyLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
ArabicHebrewMade in
Israel
Directing · 1
- Shlomi Eldar Director
Writing · 1
- Shlomi Eldar Writer
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