Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - London

Borders (UK Premiere)
Nurit Kedar and Eran Riklis - Israel - 1999 - 58m - video - documentary
In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles

Arbitrary lines are drawn between countries, designed to protect, separate and denote the sovereignty of those nations. In this riveting documentary, Kedar and Riklis record several of the most emotionally charged stories across the borders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. It is a world of paradoxes - of profiteering, violence, death, prostitution, love, smuggling and war. Borders portrays poignant personal accounts and testimonials from those whose lives have been forever changed by the artificial barriers of Israel and its neighbors: the shell-shocked veteran who visits the site of his affliction, the "shouting fence" that is the meeting point and only form of communication possible for a Druze family torn apart by politics, and a mother who lost her family and "adopts" a soldier.
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