It's not everyday that the reality of imprisoned Palestinian women's lives gets as much attention as "3000 Nights" has, which makes the film all the more incredible. Not only did it premiere to resounding acclaim at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film has continued to surprise and move audiences at big festivals and small cinemas around the world ever since.

Prominent Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri's feature debut is a harrowing tale about a young Palestinian woman torn from her life and wrongfully placed in a high-security Israeli prison, finding herself pregnant and serving an eight-year sentence for a crime she didn't commit.

Against all odds, Layal has her child and raises him behind bars, while fighting every day of his life to protect them both from the gruesome realities of an institution where Palestinian political prisoners are incarcerated side by side with Israeli criminal inmates.

It's a story so dramatically heroic, many people might have a hard time believing that it's anything other than fiction. However, it is in fact a reality many Palestinians will have to live with for the rest of their lives.