West of the Jordan River

synopsis

In 1982, Amos Gitai made a video diary tracking the progress of the peace process in the West Bank. Thirty-five years later, in something of a follow-up film, he conducts a dialogue with the inhabitants of the occupied territory. Disillusioned by politics, the Palestinians and the Israelis are trying to find their own way to achieve long-term changes.

biography

In 1973, leading Israeli director Amos Gitai (1950) served during the Yom Kippur War. His traumatic experience led him to start making both fiction and documentary films in which he focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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