Between ‘Reality’ and Memory: An Interview with Palestinian Filmmaker Michel Khleifi
Michel Khleifi: You can take one branch from Palestine’s oranges and plant it anywhere in the world or vice versa. We take from the world to enrich ourselves.
Michel Khleifi
Daytime Film: “Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel” by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan
A three-part documentary, the film “Route 181” follows the borders drawn up by UN Resolution 181 which was adopted by the UN on 29 November 1947 to separate Palestine into two states – one Jewish and one Arab. 56 percent of the territory was attributed to the Jewish minority while 43 percent was given to the Arab majority, with a small central area given over to international supervision. Fifty-five years later, the journey of these two filmmakers along Route 181 traces a border which never actually existed.
