Borders
Directed by: Co-director: Eran Riklis, Nurit Kedar
Language: Arabic, Hebrew, English subtitles
2000 | Israel | Beta SP | Color | California Premiere | 56 min
Topics: Palestinian, Middle East Conflict, Israelis & Arabs, Israel, Immigration, Human Rights and Justice, History, Arabic
Part of special program Israeli Documentaries
Close up on Nurit Kedar
Director in person: San Francisco, Berkeley
Filmmakers Nurit Kedar and Eran Riklis teamed up to make Borders, a riveting documentary that puts a human face on the neighbors who live alongside Israel's 1,171 kilometers of borders. The film deftly explores the political, cultural and geographical divisions that separate Israelis, Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians and Palestinians from one another. Some of these borders are peaceful and quiet; others are fraught with fear. But the people who live and work near the borders - an Israeli soldier who "adopts" an Arab family, a Druze bride who leaves her family in the Golan to marry in Lebanon (the real-life story behind Riklis's Syrian Bride), or the Lebanese merchant importing luxury goods from Israel into Southern Lebanon we will meet again in Lebanon Dream - navigate these artificial boundaries with a combination of emotional and physical effort.
Director will be in attendance in San Francisco and Berkeley.
Presented with Lebanon Dream
Co-presented by Jewish Voice for Peace and the American Friends Service Committee