This week we bring you Iris Zaki’s thoughtprovoking short film “Natural Born Settlers.” A selfdescribed liberal from cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, Zaki wanted to get behind the politics of Israel’s controversial settlements in the occupied territories — so she moved there, temporarily, setting up an improvised cafe where she could chat with settlers from her own generation.

Zaki’s previous OpDoc was “The Shampoo Summit,” for which she took a job at a Christian Arabowned hair salon, using a similarly playful, openminded approach to transcend rhetoric and ideology and spark serious conversations with her fellow Israelis.

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