West of the Jordan River
The Amos Gitai Collection
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1h 24m
Award-winning filmmaker Amos Gitai returns to the West Bank to better understand the efforts of the citizens, both Israelis and Palestinians, to try to overcome the consequences of the 50-year occupation. Gitai's documentary intersperses footage of his interviews with Yitzhak Rabin from the 1990s with contemporary interviews of everyday citizens.
"As formally precise at it is politically unapologetic." - John Anderson, Wall Street Journal
Directed by Amos Gitai
Israel, 2017
Documentary, Politics, Israeli Culture
Hebrew, English (with English subtitles)
84 minutes
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