ROUTE 181 Fragments of a journey in Palestine-Israel

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ROUTE 181
Fragments of a journey in Palestine-Israel
ROUTE 181
CONTENT
Route 181 offers an unusual vision of the inhabitants of
Palestine-Israel. For more than a year, Khleifi and Sivan have
dedicated themselves to producing what they consider a
cinematic act of faith.
In the summer of 2002, for two long months, they travelled
together from the south to the north of their country of
birth, traced their trajectory on a map and called it Route
181. This virtual line follows the borders outlined in
Resolution 181, which was adopted by the United Nations
on November 29th 1947 to partition Palestine into two
states.
As they travel along this route, they meet women and men,
Israeli and Palestinian, young and old, civilians and soldiers,
filming them in their everyday lives.
CREDITS
Michel Khleifi & Eyal Sivan, F/B/GB/D 2003,
270 min
Writing, Directing and Production Michel Khleifi, Eyal
Sivan | Executuve Producer Armelle Laborie | Camera
Phillipe Bellaiche | Sound Richard Verthe | Editing
Michel Khleifi, Eyal Sivan | Co-Producers Omar alQattan SINDIBAD FILMS LTD, Werner Dütsch WDR
Köln, Michel Khleifi SOURAT FILMS SPRL, Alain
Bottarelli
ROUTE 181
FILM-MAKERS
Film-maker Michel Khleifi
Michel Khleifi was born in Nazareth in the north of Palestine.
He studied theatre at INSAS in Brussels where he had
emigrated in 1971. He has directed and produced several
documentary and feature films and has received several
prestigious awards including the International Critics’ Award
at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Shell at San
Sebastian in 1987 for his film Wedding in Galilee.
Michel Khleifi currently teaches at INSAS in Brussels, where
he lives. In spring 2004 he was visiting Professor at Columbia
University in New York.
FILMOGRAPHY
(only cinema-films)
Das Fruchtbare Gedächtnis (Eine Frau, Ein Land) Dokumentation,
1980
Maaloul celebrates it's Destruction, Dokumentation, 1985
Hochzeit in Galiläa, Spielfilm, 1986
Lied der Steine, Spielfilm, 1990
L'Ordre du Jour, Spielfilm, 1992
Das Märchen der drei Juwelen, Spielfilm, 1994/5
Verbotene Ehen im Heiligen Land, Dokumentation, 1995
Zindeeq, Spielfilm, 2009
Film-maker Eyal Sivan
Eyal Sivan, is a documentary filmmaker and essayist. Born in
Haifa Israel he grows up in Jerusalem and after exercising as
a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv he leaves Israel in
1985 and settled in Paris and since then he is sharing is time
between Europe and Israel.
Sivan directed more then 10 worldwide awarded political
documentaries and produced many others. His
cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded
various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide
theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan’s works are
regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world. Sivan
publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes’
representation, political use of memory, as well as genocide
and representation.
He’s the founder and artistic director of the Paris based
documentary films production company Momento! and the
film distribution agency Scalpel. Sivan is the founder and
Chief Editor of ‘South Cinema Notebooks’ - a journal of
cinema and political critic edited by the Sapir academic
college in Israel where he lecturs and member of the
editorial board of the Paris based publishing house ‘La
Fabrique’ as well as of the French social and political studies
journal 'De l'autre Côté'. FILMOGRAPHY
(only long documentaries)
2009 Jaffa - The Orange’s Clockwork, 88 min
2004 I Love You All / Aus Liebe Zum Volk (Koregie Audrey
Maurion), 98 min
2003 Route 181, Fragmente einer Reise in Palästina-Israel (Koregie
Michel Khleifi) 272‘
1999 Ein Spezialist, Portrait eines modernen Kriminellen, 128 min
1995 Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with no Return?, 61 min
1994 Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome, Dokudrama, 64 min
1993 Itgaber, he will Overcome, 2 x 85 min 1990 Izkor, Sklaven der Erinnerung, 97 min
1987 Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through, 81 min
FESTIVALS
(selection)
Washington 2004
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, London
2004
Festival international du film des droits de l’homme, Paris
2004
Cinéma du réel, Paris 2004
Making Difference, Stockholm 2004
Festival du Monde Arabe, Montréal 2003
Video Festival of Arab, Iranian and South Asian Films, New
York 2003
Filmfestival Augsburg 2005
Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München 2004
Chicago Palestine Film Festival 2004
Festival de Rabat 2004
Biennale d’art contemporain de San Sebastian 2004
Biennale des cinémas arabes, Paris 2004
Festival Résistances, Foix 2004
Etats généraux du documentaire, Lussas 2004
Rencontres cinématographiques de Gindou 2004
Dokumentarfilmfestival Pekin 2004
Festival de Namur 2004
Filmfestival Haifa 2004
Festival de Carthage 2004
Internationales Dokumentar- und Videofestival Kassel 2004
Doxa, Vancouver 2004
Festival international de Fribourg 2004
Internationales Filmfestival San Francisco 2004
Internationales Filmfestival Buenos Aires (BAFICI) 2004
AWARDS
Grand Prix de Festival International du film des droits de
l’homme
Bester Film, Internationales Dokumentarfilm Festival
Yamagata
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Despite the tribal allegiances imposed on us, which we
reject, and armed with our common experience, we decided
to return to our country. By doing so, we wanted to unveil
the geographic and mental reality in which the men and
women of Palestine-Israel are living today.
The demarcation line of the Partition Plan for Palestine,
drawn up and voted by the UN in 1947, was the starting
point of our film. For us, it represented both a documentary
challenge and promises of a rich human adventure.
Our aim was to break with the usual approach in which
people, places or events are filmed only because they
coincide with the filmmaker¹s ideological disposition, where
nothing is really illuminated other than already familiar
political discourses or clichés on what is called the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.
Along this demarcation line, which does not in fact exist, we
wanted to film, in a particular way, men and women, places,
all previously unseen. During these chance meetings, we
listened together to the varying sounds of people, to their
passions and disillusionment. We provoked in us but also in
our interlocutors a relationship of love in response to a daily
reality saturated with danger and overwhelmed by death.
The voices of those forgotten by official discourse will we
hope, be heard the voices of those who nonetheless
constitute the majority in both societies, those in whose
name wars are fought.
We wished to construct a film which resists the idea that the
only thing Israelis and Palestinians can do together is fight
wars until they are both driven to oblivion.’
This film does not have two points-of-view but a common
one emanating from two complimentary visions. Whatever
the unease which their journey may cause us, Michel Khleifi
and Eyal Sivan invite us to follow in their footsteps.
(Michel Khleif, Eyal Sivan)
SCREENINGS
in Germany
16.04.2011 Heidelberg (Kino am Karlstor)
4.-6.3.2011 München (Werkstattkino)
24.-28.6.08 Oldenburg (Cine K)
20.-23.3.08 Berlin (Eiszeit)
14.05.2005 Frankfurt (Filmmuseum)
3.+10.05.05 Dornbirn (Österreich)
19.3.-8.5.05 Ludwigsburg (Kunstverein)
14.-20.3.05 Filmtage Augsburg
26.02.2005 Düsseldorf (Museum Kunst Palast)
19.-29.12.05 München (Maxim)
25.-28.11.04 Bremen (Kino 46)
19.-25.11.04 Wien (jüdische Filmwoche)
14.11.2004 Kassel (Internationales Dokumentar- und
Videofestival)
14.-16.10.04 Köln (Kinoforum Kalk)
17.10.2004 Köln (Off-Broadway)
23.-29.9.04 Düsseldorf (Black Box)
01.09.2004 Berlin (Eiszeit)
5.-11.08.04 Leipzig (naTo)
15.-21.7.04 Heidelberg (Kino am Karlstorbahnhof)
2.-4.7.2004 Nürnberg (Filmhaus)
1.-7.7.2004 Saarbrücken (Filmhaus)
1.-6.7.2004 Hamburg (3001)
27.,28.6.04 Hannover (Kino im Künstlerhaus)
23.-30.6.04 Freiburg (Kino am Wehrbahnhof)
13.-16.6.04 Münster (Cinema)
10.06.2004 Bonn (Kinemathek in der Brotfabrik)
27.5.-2.6.04 Köln (Filmhaus)
20.-26.5.04 Münster (Cinema)
16.-26.5.04 München (Maxim)
15.05.2004 Internationales Dokumentarfilm Festival
München
2.-12.5. 04 Berlin (Eiszeit)
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