Route181: Fragments of A Journey in Palestine- Israel

For more than a year, KHLEIFI and SIVAN have dedicated themselves to producing what they consider a cinematic act of faith: a film co-directed by a Palestinian and by an Israeli. In the summer of 2002, for two long months, they traveled together from the south to the north of their country of birth, traced their trajectory on a map and called it Route 181. This virtual line follows the borders outlined in Resolution 181, which was adopted by the United Nations on Nevember 29th,1947, to partition Palestine into two states. Frontiers have been built on the hills and in the plains, on mountains and in valleys, but above all inside the minds and souls of these two peoples and in the collective unconscious of both societies. With Route 181, Michel KHLEIFI and Eyal SIVAN take us on a disorientating journey across this tiny territory with vast ramifications.