Famed documentary filmmaker Mai Masri, a Palestinian living in Lebanon, shows us life on the ground during the 2006 Israeli invasion. Beirut is turned upside down in a torrent of Israeli shells and bombs as refugees from the south arrive. Masri focuses on the experience of a small group of individuals, including a relief worker, a theater performer who organizes workshops and performances with traumatized and displaced children, and a television journalist. Their activity is presented straightforwardly; the drama is in the situation and in the images themselves. Masri’s camera also captures a lasting legacy of the invasion: Lebanese praise for Hezbollah for having withstood the Israelis.

A car trip with four young filmmakers on their way from Jenin to Ramallah for their favorite pizza is considerably lengthened and complicated by a labyrinth of Israeli checkpoints.

This collaboration between French choreographer Jean Gaudin and Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi presents a nighttime tour of Ramallah, animated by Gaudin’s eccentric but gentle propulsive movements.