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In the summer 2002, Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan travelled the length of their country of birth documenting people along the route. Tracing their trajectory on a map, they called it "Route 181" after United Nations Resolution 181 – the 1947 partition plan of Palestine into two independent states: one Arab and one Jewish.

'When Eyal and I went to film Route 181, we found ourselves like someone who is walking inside a deep wound, and on the edges of the wound there were different people in pain, each in their own way. The Israelis on the one hand, come from the wounds and blows of their cursed past, and here they are obliged to continue lying to themselves because they are aware of what they did against the Palestinian people and how they erased their world. Yet, they continue with the lie that is built on myths that have no place in the modern world and that is a trauma on its own. As for the Palestinians, they are unable to confront their miserable reality and attempt to understand what happened to them. How could they be responsible while living in a trauma that prevents them from seeing the light of truth?' Michel Khleifi

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