Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel - North

An unusual view of the inhabitants of Palestine-Israel; the shared view of an Israeli and a Palestinian. In the summer of 2002, for two long months, Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi 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 20 november 1947 to partition Palestine into two states. As they travel along this route, they meet women and men, Israelis and Palestinians, young and old, civilians and soldiers, and film them in their everyday lives. Each of these characters has their own way of referring to the frontiers that separate them from their neighbors: concrete, barbed-wire, cynicism, humor, indifference, suspicion, aggression... 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.
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Script: Eyal Sivan, Michel Khleifi
Cinematography: Philippe Bellaiche
Editing: Sari Ezouz, Eyal Sivan, Michel Khleifi
Sound: Richard Verthe
Production: Production:momento distribution Ltd., France, Τ.+33 1 43662524 contact@momento-films.comwww.momento-production.com& mecfilm, Germanyt. +49 30 6676 6700 f. +49 30 6676 6699 info@mecfilm.com www.mecfilm
Producers: Armelle Laborie
Co-production: Sourate Films Sprl. (Belgium), Sindibad Films Ltd. (UK), WDR (Germany)
Format: DigiBeta Color
Production Country: France-Belgium-UK-Germany
Production Year: 2003
Duration: 85
Contact: momento distribution Ltd., France Armelle Laborie Τ. +33 1 4366 2524 contact@momento-films.com www.momento-production.com

Eyal Sivan

Eyal Sivan was born in 1964 in Haifa, Israel, and grew up in Jerusalem. After working as a professional fashion photographer in Tel Aviv, he left Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. Ever since, he has been splitting his time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, he has directed more than 10 political documentaries, which have won awards worldwide, and produced many others. His body of work has been screened and garnered distinctions at prestigious international festivals. Apart from theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, his films are regularly screened in major art shows around the world. He publishes papers and essays and gives lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes, the political use of memory, genocide and issues of representation, etc. He is the founder and the artistic director of the Paris-based documentary film production company momento! and the film distribution agency Scalpel. He is the founder and Chief Editor of South Cinema Notebooks - a journal of cinema and political criticism, edited by the Sapir Academic College in Israel where he regularly lectures. He is member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique. In the last years, Sivan was Reader (associate professor) in Media Production at the school of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI), at the University of East London (UEL) were he was co-leading the MA program in Film, video and new media. Currently, he is an Honorary Fellow at University of Exeter UK, he is teaching at the Master's program in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam.

Filmography

1987 Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through 1990 Izkor, Slaves of memory
1991 Israland (TV)
1993 Itgaber, He Will overcome
1994 Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome 1995 Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with Νo Return?
1996 Itsembatsemba, Rwanda οne Genocide Later (short)
1997 Burundi, under Terror (short)
1999 The Specialist, Portrait of a modern Criminal
2001 On the Top of the Descent (short) 2003 Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (co-direction)
2004 I Love You All (co-direction)
2005 Faces of the Fallen (TV)
2007 Citizens K, the Twin Brothers (TV)
2009 Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork
2012 Common State, Potential Conversation (1)

Michel Khleifi