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Google is the most powerful search engine on the Net. From the beginning, money was not important to the founders of Google “they wanted to make the world a better place.”

Connanski in the outskirts of Paris in a total ecstasy of peace and acknowledged stress.

This documentary was filmed in Beirut under Syrian occupation in the year 2000 with few resources, a camera and the idea of creating a documentary about Beirut with touches of fiction, connecting it to two myths from western culture, Romeo and Juliet, and Salome, inspired by the east. This explains the fragments of Shakespearean texts in the video. I had the backdrop -Beirut, its streets and neighborhoods-, the actors -the people of Beirut-, and I had the car -“le service” (one of those old taxi-cars that really are actors in the “asphalt cinema”, and that immediately reveal the identity of their owners through the amulets tied to the rear vision mirror, such as rosaries, pictures of saints or photos of Assad). This is why the documentary has a road-movie feel.

At a time when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached a stand still, the director has the courage to allow central figures of Matzpen to speak once again. Matzpen were an anti-Zionist group who were subject to abuse and social and political isolation in their native Israel for 35 years: because its members affirmed the legitimacy of the Palestinian claim to live in their own land.