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Update · WALL

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DIRECTED, ANIMATED, AND EDITED BY CAM CHRISTIANSEN

WRITTEN BY DAVID HARE

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“Build that wall!” Israel did simply that: a 435-mile lengthy, $Four billion “separation fence,” that divides Israel from the Palestinians, in an try to scale back terrorism. The wall is the topic of British playwright David Hare’s eponymous play (carried out in NYC on the Public Theater), right here given new life by Cam Christiansen’s ingenious animation. Hare confronts the brute actuality of the construction: 4 occasions so long as the Berlin Wall, it required the confiscation of 4000 acres of Palestinian land and the destruction of 1000 timber. Brilliant Israeli novelist David Grossman (To the End of the Land) opines that “after 1967, we became addicted to occupation…a victim of the situation. We hand over our fate to security people…trapped in this paradox. We live to survive only, while historically it was the reverse. We survived to live.”

Presented in affiliation with The Other Israel Film Festival

Presented with help from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Films; The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Fund; The Richard Brick, Geri Ashur, and Sara Bershtel Fund for Social Justice Documentaries

CANADA 2017 83 MINS. IN ENGLISH NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA

Reviews

“A fascinating study of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. A compelling animated documentary (by) Cam Christiansen and playwright-screenwriter David Hare… (who) has lots of interesting things to say. The wall has trapped the land in an inescapable paradox. The only saving grace… is the colorful graffiti that has appeared mostly on the Palestinian side of the barrier. Christiansen makes those drawings come to life in a powerful display of creative wish fulfillment. It’s the triumph of art over an otherwise unbearable reality.”
– Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter

“An engrossing discussion of a problem that was supposed to be a solution.”
– Chris Knight, National Post (Canada)