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Long still frames, text, language, and sound are woven together to unfold the narrative of an anonymous group who fill their time by measuring distance.

Discusses the Palestinian Hamas movement in comparison with Fatah. The program explores the ideological underpinnings of the Intifada, coordinated by Hamas and transmitted to the young in educational sessions and public gatherings. The ideology stresses the central importance of Islam in social and political life of every Muslim.

Anas ek Aili works with Palestinian children in Ramallah. Independently, they create a video to portray their surroundings from their own perspective and their understanding of the language of video.

When Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, the city of Rafah was suddenly split, between Egypt and Gaza, by an immense metal and concrete wall. Families found themselves divided by a highsecurity international border, though their houses often lay less than 100m apart. Before long, influential families moved their business underground, through dozens of secret tunnels burrowed below the Israeli border fence. Everything moves through Rafah's tunnels: from cigarettes and drugs to cash and people. It is a vast enterprise, and pays five times the average annual Gaza salary in one month. It is a family business, passed on from father to son and always - for reasons of security as well as economics - kept in the family.

Imad and Ahmed are two teenagers living in Nablus (West Bank) and working in the city market to contribute to the household economy. Imad wants to be a lawyer and Ahmed wants to join the Palestinian resistance.

“On december 19th 2008, the Free Gaza movement sailed from Cyprus to Palestine. Our objective was to break the Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip. We were the last and only foreigners to enter and stay in the territory. We got involved in something that nobody expected”.

Liana Badr's documentary locates itself at the checkpoints and Wall crossings within the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Here, the control of walls, gates, and roads is always political, and seemingly simple structures serve not as means of passage but more often as obstacles to the crops, families, schools, and livelihoods of those who must endure their presence.