It’s 1987, and the first Palestinian popular movement in the West Bank is rising. Activists in filmmaker Amer Shomali’s village of Beit Sahour, a suburb of Bethlehem, decide to create a co-operative dairy farm. They purchase 18 cows from an Israeli kibbutz and transport them to the West Bank. After some trial and error, the newly minted “lactivists” succeed, and the population comes to depend on the “intifada milk.” But this act of defiance doesn’t go unnoticed... With humor and passion, this film captures the spirit of the first Palestinian uprising through the personal experiences of those who lived it.
The Wanted 18
The Wanted 18
#memory
#politics
#activism
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Amer Shomali, Paul Cowan
- Script: Paul Cowan
- Cinematography: Daniel Villeneuve, German Gutierrez
- Editing: Aube Foglia
- Sound: Sylvain Bellemare
- Music: Benoît Charest
- Production: Intuitive Pictures, National Film Board of Canada, Bellota Films, Dar Films
- Producers: Ina Fichman, Nathalie Cloutier
- Executive producer: Saed Andoni, Dominique Barneaud, Ina Fichman, Colette Loumède
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Canada, Palestine, France
- Production Year: 2014
- Duration: 75΄
- Contact: National Film Board of Canada, info@nfb.ca.
- Awards/Distinctions: Best Documentary from the Arab World – Abu Dhabi FF 2014 Founders Prize for Best Documentary – Traverse City FF 2015 Special Mention for the Gilda Vieira de Mello Prize – Geneva FIFDH2015 Cercle d’or Meilleur Documentaire – Sherbrooke FCMS 2016
Amer Shomali
Filmography
2014 The Wanted 18
Paul Cowan
Filmography
1995 Lessons
2000 Give Me Your Soul...
2001 Westray
2005 The Peacekeepers
2009 Paris 1919: Un Traité pour la Paix (TV)
2012 Engraved on a Nation (TV)
2014 The Wanted 18 (TV)
2000 Give Me Your Soul...
2001 Westray
2005 The Peacekeepers
2009 Paris 1919: Un Traité pour la Paix (TV)
2012 Engraved on a Nation (TV)
2014 The Wanted 18 (TV)
