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IN THE DESERT - A DOCUMENTARY DIPTYCH

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By Avner FAINGULERNT

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Documentary - Completed 2018

A profound journey trying to defy what is commonly known about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

DocAviv 2018

Best Cinematography Award, 20th DocAviv, 2018

DocAviv 2018

Fipresci Best Director Award, 20th DocAviv, 2018

FilmFest Hamburg 2018

International Competition

Doc Buenos Aires 2018

Millenium Documentary Film Festival in Brussels 2019

Academia Film Olomouc - 54th international festival of science documentary films, Czech Republic 2019

FICIC Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Cosquín 2019

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ISRAEL, CANADA
- Languages
- HEBREW, ARABIC
- Duration
- 220 mn
- Director(s)
- Avner FAINGULERNT
- Producer(s)
- Hagar SAAD SHALOM (Skene Border Films), Paul CADIEUX (Filmoption International), Shlomi ELKABETZ (Deux Beaux Garcons Films), Danae ELON (Entre Deux Mondes Productions)
- Synopsis
- In The Desert is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: ‘Omar's Dream’ is about a Palestinian family; ‘Avidan's Dream’ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by Israeli Army - which officially prohibits anyone from settling there. The two families live on opposite hills, but never meet. Both men discover their lives are determined by a personal struggle to define who they really are rather than by a political conflict.
  
  In The Desert is a profound journey trying to defy what is commonly known about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  
  "In The Desert - A Documentary Diptych is an astonishing endeavor, to say the least". (Olaf Möller, Viennale 2018)