I have so many thoughts on this movie, but so little time to truly express the immense introspection it leaves me. Goddard and especially Mieville create a truly special film here (this movie specifically was inspired by the works of Dziga Vertov which is what drew me to Goddard in the first place), but I think what really is the most important part of this movie is the actual battle for Palestinian liberation that is being filmed - and I think this is exactly what Goddard and Mieville want the audience to take away from it. This is just a movie, something that I watched in the privileged comfort of my home, just like Goddard, Mieville and their children in France. Simultaneously, genocidal settler-colonial forces are pushing the Palestinian people to popular resistance, and have been for decades. So out of this contradiction, what is the resolution: it is just as Marx wrote, "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Replace philosophers with filmmakers or audiences and you have the answer. We can talk all we want about what this film means and leave it at that, but this is not the point. Ici et ailleurs should make you want to actively help those under the fist of oppression and fight alongside those who have been fighting their entire lives.