Wall

When it’s completed, the barrier between Palestinians and Israelis will stretch about 300 miles longer than the Berlin Wall. While Israelis feel protected by it, Palestinians are cut off from their land, water, and, of course, each other—having to negotiate tortuous routes and endure arbitrary waits at multiple checkpoints just to go about their daily lives. Based on the 2009 monologue by renowned British playwright and screenwriter David Hare, Wall ruminates on the terminology, the philosophy, and the reality of what the Israelis call a “security fence” and the Palestinians “an apartheid wall.” Troubling questions are made comprehensible with black-and-white animation that has a hand-crafted feel. Canadian director Cam Christiansen creates a malleable canvas for Hare’s journey of inquiry, revealing the bleak realities of the Occupation through the eyes of various Israelis and Palestinians the author has gotten to know. Outsiders, the filmmakers wisely do not offer a solution, only share a vision of what could have been had both sides chosen peace.

IN PERSON: Director Cam Christiansen

Preceded by OBJECTOR US 2017, 16 min, Director Molly Stuart
IN PERSON: Molly Stuart

Sponsored by:
Teresa Wolf