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CHOPPED

By Karam ALI, Casey A. JACKSON

IDIOMS FILM - as PROD

Social issues - Production 2018

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- PALESTINE, ISRAEL
- Languages
- ARABIC, HEBREW
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Karam ALI, Casey A. JACKSON
- Producer(s)
- Mohanad YAQUBI (Idioms Film), Sami SAID (Idioms Film), Håvard WETTLAND GOSSÉ (Spætt Film), Peå HOLMQVIST (HB PeA Holmquist Film)
- Synopsis
- A group of young men at the edges of Palestinian society struggle to maintain the stability of their once thriving trade. For these thieves and choppers of Israeli cars, a livelihood is threatened — but is that all that’s at stake? Told from an anonymous space — in the shadows between chop-shops and checkpoints — the stories these thieves provide shine new light on an illicit economy that persists today. By lending a voice to the previously ignored, Chopped seeks a deeper understanding of the structures and interests that drive black markets. Placing the viewer behind the wheel of a stolen Israeli car produces a rare insight in the praxis of these young criminals, while provoking broader questions: Where does one draw the line between politics and criminality? And when laws are written by the occupier, how do the marginalized reimagine what is possible?