Another achievement for Israeli cinema: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz's documentary, "The Law in These Parts," has won the World Cinema Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the top gathering for independent movies made outside of Hollywood's major studios.

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The film, which won the Best Documentary award at the 2011 Jerusalem Film Festival, reviews Israel's legal system in the West Bank from Alexandrowicz's critical point of view.

It combines interviews with senior legal experts, including former Supreme Court President Meir Shamgar and former Judge and Military Advocate General Amnon Strashnov.

The film was praised during the festival, and Alexandrowicz was even invited to write an op-ed for the New York Times about the issue discussed in the documentary.

Top honors at Sundance were given to "Beasts of the Southern Wild," a mythical film starring an eight-year-old girl, which won the grand jury prize in the US dramatic competition, and "The House I Live In", about the war on drugs, which won the same honor in the US documentary category.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report