Simone Bitton (Director)

Wall is a cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab. In an original documentary approach, the film follows the separation fence that is destroying one of the most historically significant landscapes in the world, while imprisoning one people and enclosing the other.

On the building site of this mad wall, daily utterances and holy chants, in Hebrew and in Arabic, defy the discourses of war, passing through the deafening noise of bulldozers. Wall offers its spectators a last glimpse of the beauty of this land and the humanity of its inhabitants a moment before they disappear behind the wall.

Type: Documentary

Director: Simone Bitton

Year: 2004

Time: 97 minutes

Language: Arabic and Hebrew w/ English subtitles

Reviews

"A film that considers hard-core political realities alongside agonizing personal truths." -NY Times.

"An important human and artistic testament." -Salon.

Winner, World Cinema Special Jury Prize - 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Winner, Grand Prize, Best Documentary - 2004 Marseille Film Festival
Winner, Grand Prize, Best Documentary - 2004 Jerusalem Film Festival
Winner, Grand Prize, Best Film - Pesa