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Her back to the camera, a Gaza woman ashamedly unbuttons her dress before a female Israeli soldier, revealing that her breasts were removed in a failed attempt to halt cancer. In this climactic scene in "Fatenah" - whose creators term it the first serious Palestinian attempt at animation - the heroine flunks the security check.

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