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Executive Producers-Luc Martin Gousset and Amit Breuer Based on an idea by Ilan Ziv and Elias Khuri Journalist: Amal Mougihazal Camera: Uri Ackermann/Olivier Chambord Editor: Einat Sidi Original Score: Joel Diamand PA :Sigal Rosh Coproduction of Amythos films, Point Du Jour, Tamouz Media with Noga Communications and ARTE World sales: Doris Weitzel Point Du Jour international, Paris. North American distributor: Jonathan Miller First Run/ Icarus Films Inc, NY The Junction investigates and explore the culture of death that feeds the violent convolutions that are currently consuming both Israelis and Palestinians. It is focusing on a specific spot- The Nezarim junction in the Gaza strip in a specific moment –The first days of the armed clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in late September 2000 . Although they may have had little in common in life, Fahmi Abou Ammouneh and David Biri are linked in death, their fates tied to Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip, a crossroads between the Israeli settlement of Netzarim and the Palestinian refugee camp of Nusseirat. It became a strategic location during the Oslo peace process, which left Nezarim isolated in Palestinian lands. It was there that David and Fahmi died - the first Israeli soldier and the first resident of Nusseirat to lose their lives in conflict that has since seen nearly 1,000 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians killed. Using home videos and memories of family and friends, THE JUNCTION shows the ripple effects on their loved ones and their communities. David's sister remains angry at the meaninglessness of his death. His parents have left his room untouched, except for changing the sheets once a week. His dearest friend, El'ad, committed suicide. And David's surviving army buddies are disillusioned. For Fahmi's family, his death is a personal tragedy and one more injustice perpetrated by the Israeli occupiers. His mother's family was forced out of their village when she was a baby, and his uncle decries the misery that follows them from generation to generation. Once a busy intersection and a teeming neighborhood, the area is now a militarized desert.The Palestinian homes, orange groves, and greenhouses that surrounded the crossroads have been reduced to rubble and sand; a metaphor for the trap that has imprisoned both Palestinians and Israelis. Nothing remains except the Israeli settlement that David's unit was tasked to protect. The narrative spine of THE JUNCTION is confined in space and time, yet reaches far into the social fabric of both societies to explore the culture of death that feeds the political impasse, and the violent convolutions that are currently consuming both Israelis and Palestinians. "Ilan Ziv is one of the most insightful and inventive documentary directors to emerge from Israel, and THE JUNCTION is one of his most expertly crafted films to date, a complex interweaving of multiple narrative lines... One does not think of documentaries as suspense films, but THE JUNCTION is so deftly organized that it merits that encomium... Elegantly structured... A powerful reminder that the smallest skirmishes exact a grim toll in blood and tears." - George Robinson, Jewish Week "Making documentaries about the Middle East, where political realities shift instantaneously, can be a tricky business. But [the] wrenching JUNCTION (conceived with Lebanese author Elias Khoury) looks beyond the current wave of violence, to its roots in a culture of tragedy and denial." - The Village Voice " *** (Three Stars!). Moving!" - V.A. Musetto, New York Post "What is so beautiful about Ilan Ziv's film is its will to never contrast the pain of one family with the pain of another; to never privilege the intensity of one at the expense of the other." - Telestars (France) "An intersection like so many, one street crossing another. Nothing more banal, except that this crossing is in the Gaza Strip. The film reconstructs the facts...delving into the painful ravages of the destroyed families [and] the underlying mechanisms of two peoples dragged into the vicious circle of aggression, attacks, and counterattacks..."- Le Monde (France) "Very moving... A powerful metaphor for the futility of our conflict with the Palestinians."-Jury of 2003 Haifa Film Festival "An emotionally effective film."- The New York Times |
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