Under a Blue Sun

In 1987, Sylvester Stallone filmed Rambo 3 in a military training zone in the Israeli Negev Desert. Thirty-five years later, documentary filmmaker Daniel Mann revisits the site with Bashir, a 75-year-old Palestinian artist who worked on the film’s special effects. Through Bashir’s perspective, the landscape reveals its historical scars, connecting his people’s past to the cinematic spectacle once staged there. A strikingly beautiful yet brutal story of a fragmented land and a displaced people.