Fade from black. Small picture in picture, CU young girl (Diana).
TITLE: Diana
Fade in small picture in picture CU young boy (Mohammad).
TITLE: Mohammad
Fade in small picture in picture, CU young boy (Bessel).
TITLE: Bessel
Fade in small picture in picture, CU boy (Moaman).
TITLE: Moaman
Fade in small picture in picture, CU teenage girl (Mufida).
TITLE: Mufida
TITLE: Yassin
TITLE (fade from black, very large words shrink until they fit the screen, words are cut out from picture of a boy with a flag at a protest): PALESTINE KIDS
Fade in, map of West Bank and Israel. Zoom in to Jerusalem. Fade to detailed map of Jerusalem, track to Ramallah.
TITLE: Checkpoint
Fade in, CU Bessel
CU Bessel
TITLE: Bessel, 5, Jerusalem
CU photograph on table
MS Bessel
CU Bessel
MS globe and door
MS Bessel plays with lego on bed
CU hand and lego.
MS Bessel on bed.
CU hands and lego.
CU Bessel sitting in chair.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Many children in Palestine suffer from psychological trauma as a result of growing up in a conflict zone. The Palestinian Happy Child Center offers psychological counseling to children living near Ramallah.
WS Bessel outside Happy Child Center
WS Happy Child Center sign. Tilt down to Bessel and Mum enter center building. WS Bessel and Mum walk up stairs. MS Bessel and Mum enter center. CU sign 'Palestinian Happy Child Center'.
Young children playing with toys inside center.
Montage sequence of Bessel and children painting.
MS woman (Psychologist)
TITLE: Bessel's Psychologist
CU Psychologist
CU children's drawing of shooting fade to childrens drawing of flag and knife
CU Psychologist
Fade from black, CU psychologist
EWS checkpoint and road
Fade from black, WS Bessel sitting at table with Psychologist
Fade to MS Bessel
TITLE (Typewriter effect): The Israeli checkpoint at Ramallah is a major obstacle to the free flow of
people and goods. The checkpoint is not on the boundry of Israel and Palestine.
It is six kilometers from the Green Line, dividing two Palestinian areas.
Bessel has to pass through this checkpoint to reach the Happy Child Center.
MS Bessel at table
MS Bessel's Mum
MS Bessel carries paper and sits
CU Bessel drawing
DSLV to WS road and blocks.
WS entrance to checkpoint
EWS barbed wire street and watch tower. WS cars queuing.
MS Bessel walking with mother. WS checkpoint soldiers. MS Bessel walking. WS Bessel walks through turnstyle.
MS Bessel and soldiers. MS Bessel walks past bulldozers.
WS Bessel walks past watch tower. CU Bessel walks past watch tower
EWS Long wall.
EWS wall and tower. WS picture on wall.
DSLV to track wall.
CU Bessel's drawing
CU Psychologist PAN to CU Bessel
DSLV to MS Bessel and Psychologist
CU Bessel drawing
CU picture and sign on door
MS Bessel and Psychologist Zoom in to MS Bessel.
DSLV to MS Bessel
CU Bessel in van
WS cars and wall. WS wall and rubble.
MS Van, truck Bessel walks past. MS Bessel walks past vendors and tower.
WS Wall with balloons graffiti, balloon girl floats up.
MS Bessel walking with mum
MS Bessel drawing
MS Bessel walking with Mum
Checkpoint guard box. WS Bessel enters checkpoint.
WS Soldiers standing.
MS soldier checks ID.
WS soldiers and fence.
MS Bessel sits with psychologist
HA Bessel and drawing.
CU Psychologist.
HA Bessel and drawing.
MS Bessel and Psychologist.
MS Bessel opens door and returns pencils.
MS Bessel and Mum hail taxi. WS Taxi in street.
CU Bessel walking past cars, past vendors.
Zoom out from detailed map of Ramallah. DSLV to map of West
Bank. DSLV to detailed map of Hebron, Zoom in.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Approximately 400 extremistIsraeli settlers live in Hebron,
necessitating the presence of 4000 Israeli soldiers.
TITLE(Typewriter effect): "The settlements in the heart of Hebron severely damage not only the urban development of the city, but also the ability of the
residents to lead a normal life.
The main reason for this is the systematic violence exerted against the residents by the settlers who live in this area."
B'tselem (Israeli human rights group)
DSLV to narrow street with rubbish above.
WS Israeli flag through mesh. Broken window. House with soldier emplacement. Girls at school. Mirror. Soldiers patrol street. Girls walk up hill.
DSLV to MS teenage girl (Mufida) sitting at home
WS EXT Mufida's house.
MCU Mufida.
TITLE: Mufida, 16, Hebron
MS Mufida's young sister
MS Mufida. MS Mufida's Dad. CU bars on window. MS Mufida.
PAN emplacement on roof.
MCU Mufida nera window.
Window bars and rubbish.
EXT MCU Mufida in garden.
Two kids on path.
Kid plays with cat.
Prefab buildings.
MCU Mufida.
EWS roof emplacements.
MCU Mufida in garden.
Roof emplacement.
EWS children walk down street past soldiers.
WS soldier checks ID. WS Army jeep.
WS Checkpoint.
Four boys.
Girls walk past soldier.
WS soldier.
WS three girls walk down street. Boy runs past guard post. Israeli flags.
Army jeep.
Soldiers patrol street.
Barbed wire.
High guard post.
INT MS Mufida at home.
Buildings and soldier emplacement. WS Checkpoint. EWS checkpoint.
MS Mufida home.
WS Mufida and sister walk down street. Israeli flags.
WS Mufida and sister walking. Broken awning. Ws walking up stairs. WS military post, girls walking. School entrance.
MS member of Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT). TITLE: Christian Peacemaker Team
Israeli settlers with machine guns.
TITLE (Typewriter effect): "The settler violence is well planned and is intended to expand the Jewish settlement in Hebron and cause the Palestinians to leave their homes..." B'tselem
MS: Mufida's Neighbour. TITLE: Mufida's Neighbour
CU broken glass and stones. INT MCU Neighbour.
EXT MS neighbour. Rubbish.
CU severed trees.
MS neighbour and cut trees.
MS neighbour and barbed wire.
EXT WS garden PAN to building. MS Neighbour and garden.
EXT LA wire mesh and building. INT MS Mufida. EXT windows and bars. Door with graffiti.
INT MS Mufida sitting. WS Mufida in classroom. CU hands writing. MS Mufida in classroom. WS Mufida and girls outside classroom.
MS Mufida and friend walking. EWS children walking down stairs.
INT WS Mufida and sister sitting. EXT children walk down stairs. INT Mufida and sister. CU foot in plaster.
Woman running in street PAN to children on roof throwing eggs. WS children running. CU smashed eggs on road. Children looking. Mufida and sister walking in street.
INT MS Mufida and sister.
EXT sister on crutches walks up path.
EXT woman (CPT) at top of stairs. Barbed wire on stairs.
WS old man walks in street. Wire mesh and abandoned street.
INT MCU Mufida. EXT broken windows. Street and wire mesh. INT MCU Mufida.
Abandoned houses with broken roofs. Destroyed wall. INT MCU Mufida.
EXT Israeli soldier. Men walk past barbed wire.
INT MCU Mufida
EXT house demolition. Police on horses.
EXT MCU Woman with soldiers in background.
Woman and Mufida split screen. MCU Mufida.
Detailed map of Hebron. Track to region around Qawawis. Israeli settlements highlighted. TITLE: Israeli settlements. Zoom in to Qawawis.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Qawawis is a small community of five
families, about thirty people living mainly in caves, subsisting as shepherds with a little agriculture.
TITL (typewriter effect):
The village has Israeli settlements on
three sides. Most of the inhabitants left the village previously due to settler violence and intimidation and only returned three months ago when accompanied by international peace activists.
INT CU young girl, Diana. TITLE: Diana, 5, Qawawis
MCU Diana.
WS Diana and family.
MCU Diana.
WS Diana and family.
MCU Diana.
INT washing clothes. EXT hanging clothes. Children and goats. Bundling twigs.
Drawing water from well.
MS Diana sits in front of Dad.
WS Dad cutting hair. CU child having hair cut.
Diana holding scissors PAN to child having hair combed.
MS Diana sitting in front of Dad.
WS women carrying big sack. LS women walking into tent.
Diana watching women make cheese. women make cheese. Children eat cheese.
MCU Diana with Dad.
LS sheep come home. WS sheep come home. Diana and sheep.
Sheep drink at well. Child in sheep pen. woman milking.
Diana milking goat. Mum helps Diana milking
Dad sitting with Diana.
MCU Diana with Dad.
Loading donkey.
WS entrance to cave. MCU woman, neighbour. TITLE: Diana's Neighbour
women framed by window. INT cave and entrance. EXT sweeping.
MCU neighbour.
LS women and children walk up hill. INT man with stomach wound PAN to Diana.
MS man with stomach wound. MCU Diana. MS man with stomach wound.
CU stomach wound. MS man with stomach wound.
MCU Diana.
LS helicopters.
LS settlement outpost. WS three settlers.
LS three settlers approach house.
MS three settlers.
LS three settlers and Arab. WS three settlers. LS three settlers.
MS Dad and Diana.
WS Dad and kids and three settlers. WS Dad and Diana.
LS settlement PAN to three settlers.
ELS three settlers PAN to Arab village.
WS three settlers. WS sheep and shepherd.
LS three settlers, one sitting. WS shepherd and sheep. LS three settlers walking away.
ELS settlement
MS Dad and Diana.
MS woman and baby. MCU kid walks through doorway.
LS moon. LS settlement lights.
MS Dad and diana.
MS Dad balances baby.
LS donkey pulls kid.
MS Diana drinks tea.
WS Diana and sister TRACK in to MS Diana and sister.
Map of Israel and West Bank ZOOM in to Bil'in. DSLV to detail map Bil'in and surrounding area. Green Line highlighted. TITLE: Green Line (boundary of Israel and The West Bank). Israeli settlements highlighted. TITLE: Israeli Settlements. Proposed route of Barrier highlighted. TITLE: Proposed route of Israeli Barrier / Wall. Bil'in highlighted. Zoom in to Bil'in.
CU young boy, Mohammad. TITLE: Mohammad, 10, Bil'in.
CU younger boy, Yassin. TITLE: Yassin, 7, Bil'in
Yassin and Mohammad walking
MCU Mohammad.
MCU Mohammad. MCU Yassin.
MS Yassin.
Yassin and Mohammad walk to school.
INT MCU man, Headmaster. TITLE: Mohammad and Yassin's Headmaster
EXT HA LS playground.
CU children show newspaper cuttings. MCU Headmaster.
MS Yassin and teacher. MCU Yassin with certificate.
MS Yassin and Mohammad crouching.
MS Yassin Mohammad and toddler (Taquildeen).
TITLE (typewriter effect): Every Friday the people of Bil'in hold a demonstration to protest against the construction of Israel's Barrier Wall.The Barrier's planned route ignores the defacto border of the Green Line to include Israeli settlements; confiscating
Palestinian land, olive trees and subsequently their livelihood.
MCU Yassin PAN to MCU Man (Yassin and Mohammad's Dad). TITLE: Yassin and Mohammad's Dad
MS boy waving flag. HA demonstrators with flags. LA children with flags. CU ammunition. WS protest banner, mock hanging. MS mock hanging.
TRACK CU ammunition. DSLV to ELS settlement and army jeeps.
WS protesters walking with flags. LS jeeps and settlement. MCU Mohammad walking in protest. ELS soldiers on road.
MS Mohammad with flag.
WS protesters walk towards soldiers. WS protesters walk in line. MCU Mohammad walking.
WS protesters run from gunshot.
MS Yassin. MCU Yassin.
MCU Mohammad.
MS soldiers stand in line. WS soldiers in line. CU soldiers standing in line.
Protesters pick up flags. WS boy wearing flag. WS female protesters walk away.
MCU boy with flags.
WS tear gas explodes, protesters run away, throw stones.
WS soldiers run past. WS soldiers by ambulance. WS soldier.
LS protester followed by soldier. WS two soldiers by wall.
LS protesters throw rocks. LS soldiers take cover. LS protesters throw rocks. WS soldier fires gun.
LS protesters duck gun shot.
WS soldiers take cover behind wall. MS leg bandage, MS throw rock. WS tear gas explosion.
MCU arrest. WS man being arrested. MS Mohammad and Yassin sitting on rocks.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Israel's policy and practice of
settling parts of it's population and new immigrants in Palestinian
territories constitutes a flagrant
violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
(UN Resolution 446)
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel's West Bank Barrier violates international law and it's continuing construction is
considered an illegal activity.
(July 9, 2004)
WS picture in picture, plain clothes soldiers and soldiers arrest protester
(Full screen) soldiers arrest man pick him up and carry him.
(shot continues) MS man being carried.
LS two soldiers. WS youth slingshot.
MS Yassin and Mohammad sitting.
LS three soldiers. WS stone throwers advance. MS protesters duck tear gas.
Remove lens cap. Tear gas. WS youth carried to ambulance.
WS men approach youth lying in road.
LS stone throwers by trees. WS youth lying in road. WS ambulance approaches.
CU medical worker.
LS soldiers on top of hill. WS tear gas. LS man covers tear gas. WS stone throwers by trees. ELS army vehicle ZOOM in to soldier shoots tear gas. CU tear gas canister, explodes.
LS stone throwers by trees. WS stone throwers and army vehicle.
MCU Yassin, ZOOM out to MS Yassin and Mohammad.
Yassin in Batman suit running. MS. CU.
CU Yassin. MCU Mohammad.
CU Yassin
MS Mohammad
Batman and Superman walk past mosque.
MCU Yassin.
WS Batman and superman fighting.
Mohammad, Yassin and Dad.
MS Yassin on bicycle. MS Dad fixing bike. WS Dad fix bike and kids.
MCU Dad. Batman and superman running.
ZOOM out from detail map of Bil'in. DSLV to map of Israel and West Bank. ZOOM into Qalqilya region. ZOOM in to detail map of Qalqilya. Wall highlighted, TITLE: Completed Barrier / Wall.
MS boy at farm, Moaman.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Qalqilya is almost completely surrounded
by the Israeli Barrier, with only two entry/exit points.
This is one of the most fertile
agricultural areas in the West Bank.
Approximately 3000 dunams of land have been confiscated, containing 19 wells, accounting for 30% of Qalqilya's water supply.
MCU Moaman.
WS murals on wall. TITLE: unconfirmed. WS face mural.
WS long straight wall PAN to curved wall.
INT MCU Moaman.
MS Moaman and brothers in car. MCU steering wheel.
MCU DAD driving. TRACK street front. TRACK street side.
LS martyrs poster. WS martyrs poster. steering wheel PAN to sunset street.
WS children playing football.
EXT house.
CU feet up stairs. MS Moaman on roof
WS house PAN to wall. MS Moaman.
WS greenhouses and wall. WS exit car. MCU car window and wall. EXT WS boy on couch.
WS Moaman makes fire.
WS two boys lounge.
MCU Moaman.
MS barbed wire. MCU Moaman.
Tractor.
MCU Moaman. Wire fence. Pole and watch tower.
LS watch tower and wall.
MS Moaman and shop. CU Moaman. MS Moaman.
LS town and farms PAN to wall. LS sewer gates. WS sewer gates.
MS Moaman.
WS mural eyes. Mural pig. Mural bird. Mural hand. Watchtower.
WS boys walk towards mural. WS waiting for checkpoint. WS fence and people. Stop sign. Soldiers.
CU Moaman.
LS PAN wall.
MCU Moaman and shop. WS wall. WS wall.
CU Moaman.
TITLE: Palestine Kids
Picture in picture, CU Yassin in Batman suit. TITLE: Yassin
Pic in pic, MS Bessel. TITLE: Bessel. DSLV to pic in pic Diana. TITLE: Diana.
Pic in pic MCU Mohammad. TITLE: Mohammad.
Pic in pic MS Moaman at farm. TITLE: Moaman.
Pic in pic MS Mufida.
END CREDITS: Producer Director
Corrie Birch
Pic in pic MS Diana and dad. LS police jeep.
END CREDITS: Shot & Edited by
Corrie Birch
Music
"Classic Lute", "Sad Orchestra", "Egyptian", "Palestine Beats" by Silver
"Eleanor's Journey" by Numbawan
Post Production Translation
Malek Jwabrah
Location Translation
thank you to everyone who helped out
Arrest Footage courtesy of Yassin and Mohammad's Dad
Maps extracted from
UN OCHA-oPT-April 2005
Additional Maps
Jesse Birch
Special Thanks
ISM (International Solidarity Movement)
Palestinian Happy Child Center
Ministry of Education
Kurdoba Girl's School
Bil'in Primary School
The Faisel
EAPPI (Ecumenical Accompaniers)
CPT (Christian Peacemaker Team)
Qalqilya University English club
B'tselem
jumanah Odeh
Jasihl & Nancy
Carmela Omari
Hashem
Jason Moore
Banksy
Bob Birch
Dr Fahmi Hashash
Copyright. New Angle Productions. 2006.
TITLE: Diana
Fade in small picture in picture CU young boy (Mohammad).
TITLE: Mohammad
Fade in small picture in picture, CU young boy (Bessel).
TITLE: Bessel
Fade in small picture in picture, CU boy (Moaman).
TITLE: Moaman
Fade in small picture in picture, CU teenage girl (Mufida).
TITLE: Mufida
TITLE: Yassin
TITLE (fade from black, very large words shrink until they fit the screen, words are cut out from picture of a boy with a flag at a protest): PALESTINE KIDS
Fade in, map of West Bank and Israel. Zoom in to Jerusalem. Fade to detailed map of Jerusalem, track to Ramallah.
TITLE: Checkpoint
Fade in, CU Bessel
CU Bessel
TITLE: Bessel, 5, Jerusalem
CU photograph on table
MS Bessel
CU Bessel
MS globe and door
MS Bessel plays with lego on bed
CU hand and lego.
MS Bessel on bed.
CU hands and lego.
CU Bessel sitting in chair.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Many children in Palestine suffer from psychological trauma as a result of growing up in a conflict zone. The Palestinian Happy Child Center offers psychological counseling to children living near Ramallah.
WS Bessel outside Happy Child Center
WS Happy Child Center sign. Tilt down to Bessel and Mum enter center building. WS Bessel and Mum walk up stairs. MS Bessel and Mum enter center. CU sign 'Palestinian Happy Child Center'.
Young children playing with toys inside center.
Montage sequence of Bessel and children painting.
MS woman (Psychologist)
TITLE: Bessel's Psychologist
CU Psychologist
CU children's drawing of shooting fade to childrens drawing of flag and knife
CU Psychologist
Fade from black, CU psychologist
EWS checkpoint and road
Fade from black, WS Bessel sitting at table with Psychologist
Fade to MS Bessel
TITLE (Typewriter effect): The Israeli checkpoint at Ramallah is a major obstacle to the free flow of
people and goods. The checkpoint is not on the boundry of Israel and Palestine.
It is six kilometers from the Green Line, dividing two Palestinian areas.
Bessel has to pass through this checkpoint to reach the Happy Child Center.
MS Bessel at table
MS Bessel's Mum
MS Bessel carries paper and sits
CU Bessel drawing
DSLV to WS road and blocks.
WS entrance to checkpoint
EWS barbed wire street and watch tower. WS cars queuing.
MS Bessel walking with mother. WS checkpoint soldiers. MS Bessel walking. WS Bessel walks through turnstyle.
MS Bessel and soldiers. MS Bessel walks past bulldozers.
WS Bessel walks past watch tower. CU Bessel walks past watch tower
EWS Long wall.
EWS wall and tower. WS picture on wall.
DSLV to track wall.
CU Bessel's drawing
CU Psychologist PAN to CU Bessel
DSLV to MS Bessel and Psychologist
CU Bessel drawing
CU picture and sign on door
MS Bessel and Psychologist Zoom in to MS Bessel.
DSLV to MS Bessel
CU Bessel in van
WS cars and wall. WS wall and rubble.
MS Van, truck Bessel walks past. MS Bessel walks past vendors and tower.
WS Wall with balloons graffiti, balloon girl floats up.
MS Bessel walking with mum
MS Bessel drawing
MS Bessel walking with Mum
Checkpoint guard box. WS Bessel enters checkpoint.
WS Soldiers standing.
MS soldier checks ID.
WS soldiers and fence.
MS Bessel sits with psychologist
HA Bessel and drawing.
CU Psychologist.
HA Bessel and drawing.
MS Bessel and Psychologist.
MS Bessel opens door and returns pencils.
MS Bessel and Mum hail taxi. WS Taxi in street.
CU Bessel walking past cars, past vendors.
Zoom out from detailed map of Ramallah. DSLV to map of West
Bank. DSLV to detailed map of Hebron, Zoom in.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Approximately 400 extremistIsraeli settlers live in Hebron,
necessitating the presence of 4000 Israeli soldiers.
TITLE(Typewriter effect): "The settlements in the heart of Hebron severely damage not only the urban development of the city, but also the ability of the
residents to lead a normal life.
The main reason for this is the systematic violence exerted against the residents by the settlers who live in this area."
B'tselem (Israeli human rights group)
DSLV to narrow street with rubbish above.
WS Israeli flag through mesh. Broken window. House with soldier emplacement. Girls at school. Mirror. Soldiers patrol street. Girls walk up hill.
DSLV to MS teenage girl (Mufida) sitting at home
WS EXT Mufida's house.
MCU Mufida.
TITLE: Mufida, 16, Hebron
MS Mufida's young sister
MS Mufida. MS Mufida's Dad. CU bars on window. MS Mufida.
PAN emplacement on roof.
MCU Mufida nera window.
Window bars and rubbish.
EXT MCU Mufida in garden.
Two kids on path.
Kid plays with cat.
Prefab buildings.
MCU Mufida.
EWS roof emplacements.
MCU Mufida in garden.
Roof emplacement.
EWS children walk down street past soldiers.
WS soldier checks ID. WS Army jeep.
WS Checkpoint.
Four boys.
Girls walk past soldier.
WS soldier.
WS three girls walk down street. Boy runs past guard post. Israeli flags.
Army jeep.
Soldiers patrol street.
Barbed wire.
High guard post.
INT MS Mufida at home.
Buildings and soldier emplacement. WS Checkpoint. EWS checkpoint.
MS Mufida home.
WS Mufida and sister walk down street. Israeli flags.
WS Mufida and sister walking. Broken awning. Ws walking up stairs. WS military post, girls walking. School entrance.
MS member of Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT). TITLE: Christian Peacemaker Team
Israeli settlers with machine guns.
TITLE (Typewriter effect): "The settler violence is well planned and is intended to expand the Jewish settlement in Hebron and cause the Palestinians to leave their homes..." B'tselem
MS: Mufida's Neighbour. TITLE: Mufida's Neighbour
CU broken glass and stones. INT MCU Neighbour.
EXT MS neighbour. Rubbish.
CU severed trees.
MS neighbour and cut trees.
MS neighbour and barbed wire.
EXT WS garden PAN to building. MS Neighbour and garden.
EXT LA wire mesh and building. INT MS Mufida. EXT windows and bars. Door with graffiti.
INT MS Mufida sitting. WS Mufida in classroom. CU hands writing. MS Mufida in classroom. WS Mufida and girls outside classroom.
MS Mufida and friend walking. EWS children walking down stairs.
INT WS Mufida and sister sitting. EXT children walk down stairs. INT Mufida and sister. CU foot in plaster.
Woman running in street PAN to children on roof throwing eggs. WS children running. CU smashed eggs on road. Children looking. Mufida and sister walking in street.
INT MS Mufida and sister.
EXT sister on crutches walks up path.
EXT woman (CPT) at top of stairs. Barbed wire on stairs.
WS old man walks in street. Wire mesh and abandoned street.
INT MCU Mufida. EXT broken windows. Street and wire mesh. INT MCU Mufida.
Abandoned houses with broken roofs. Destroyed wall. INT MCU Mufida.
EXT Israeli soldier. Men walk past barbed wire.
INT MCU Mufida
EXT house demolition. Police on horses.
EXT MCU Woman with soldiers in background.
Woman and Mufida split screen. MCU Mufida.
Detailed map of Hebron. Track to region around Qawawis. Israeli settlements highlighted. TITLE: Israeli settlements. Zoom in to Qawawis.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Qawawis is a small community of five
families, about thirty people living mainly in caves, subsisting as shepherds with a little agriculture.
TITL (typewriter effect):
The village has Israeli settlements on
three sides. Most of the inhabitants left the village previously due to settler violence and intimidation and only returned three months ago when accompanied by international peace activists.
INT CU young girl, Diana. TITLE: Diana, 5, Qawawis
MCU Diana.
WS Diana and family.
MCU Diana.
WS Diana and family.
MCU Diana.
INT washing clothes. EXT hanging clothes. Children and goats. Bundling twigs.
Drawing water from well.
MS Diana sits in front of Dad.
WS Dad cutting hair. CU child having hair cut.
Diana holding scissors PAN to child having hair combed.
MS Diana sitting in front of Dad.
WS women carrying big sack. LS women walking into tent.
Diana watching women make cheese. women make cheese. Children eat cheese.
MCU Diana with Dad.
LS sheep come home. WS sheep come home. Diana and sheep.
Sheep drink at well. Child in sheep pen. woman milking.
Diana milking goat. Mum helps Diana milking
Dad sitting with Diana.
MCU Diana with Dad.
Loading donkey.
WS entrance to cave. MCU woman, neighbour. TITLE: Diana's Neighbour
women framed by window. INT cave and entrance. EXT sweeping.
MCU neighbour.
LS women and children walk up hill. INT man with stomach wound PAN to Diana.
MS man with stomach wound. MCU Diana. MS man with stomach wound.
CU stomach wound. MS man with stomach wound.
MCU Diana.
LS helicopters.
LS settlement outpost. WS three settlers.
LS three settlers approach house.
MS three settlers.
LS three settlers and Arab. WS three settlers. LS three settlers.
MS Dad and Diana.
WS Dad and kids and three settlers. WS Dad and Diana.
LS settlement PAN to three settlers.
ELS three settlers PAN to Arab village.
WS three settlers. WS sheep and shepherd.
LS three settlers, one sitting. WS shepherd and sheep. LS three settlers walking away.
ELS settlement
MS Dad and Diana.
MS woman and baby. MCU kid walks through doorway.
LS moon. LS settlement lights.
MS Dad and diana.
MS Dad balances baby.
LS donkey pulls kid.
MS Diana drinks tea.
WS Diana and sister TRACK in to MS Diana and sister.
Map of Israel and West Bank ZOOM in to Bil'in. DSLV to detail map Bil'in and surrounding area. Green Line highlighted. TITLE: Green Line (boundary of Israel and The West Bank). Israeli settlements highlighted. TITLE: Israeli Settlements. Proposed route of Barrier highlighted. TITLE: Proposed route of Israeli Barrier / Wall. Bil'in highlighted. Zoom in to Bil'in.
CU young boy, Mohammad. TITLE: Mohammad, 10, Bil'in.
CU younger boy, Yassin. TITLE: Yassin, 7, Bil'in
Yassin and Mohammad walking
MCU Mohammad.
MCU Mohammad. MCU Yassin.
MS Yassin.
Yassin and Mohammad walk to school.
INT MCU man, Headmaster. TITLE: Mohammad and Yassin's Headmaster
EXT HA LS playground.
CU children show newspaper cuttings. MCU Headmaster.
MS Yassin and teacher. MCU Yassin with certificate.
MS Yassin and Mohammad crouching.
MS Yassin Mohammad and toddler (Taquildeen).
TITLE (typewriter effect): Every Friday the people of Bil'in hold a demonstration to protest against the construction of Israel's Barrier Wall.The Barrier's planned route ignores the defacto border of the Green Line to include Israeli settlements; confiscating
Palestinian land, olive trees and subsequently their livelihood.
MCU Yassin PAN to MCU Man (Yassin and Mohammad's Dad). TITLE: Yassin and Mohammad's Dad
MS boy waving flag. HA demonstrators with flags. LA children with flags. CU ammunition. WS protest banner, mock hanging. MS mock hanging.
TRACK CU ammunition. DSLV to ELS settlement and army jeeps.
WS protesters walking with flags. LS jeeps and settlement. MCU Mohammad walking in protest. ELS soldiers on road.
MS Mohammad with flag.
WS protesters walk towards soldiers. WS protesters walk in line. MCU Mohammad walking.
WS protesters run from gunshot.
MS Yassin. MCU Yassin.
MCU Mohammad.
MS soldiers stand in line. WS soldiers in line. CU soldiers standing in line.
Protesters pick up flags. WS boy wearing flag. WS female protesters walk away.
MCU boy with flags.
WS tear gas explodes, protesters run away, throw stones.
WS soldiers run past. WS soldiers by ambulance. WS soldier.
LS protester followed by soldier. WS two soldiers by wall.
LS protesters throw rocks. LS soldiers take cover. LS protesters throw rocks. WS soldier fires gun.
LS protesters duck gun shot.
WS soldiers take cover behind wall. MS leg bandage, MS throw rock. WS tear gas explosion.
MCU arrest. WS man being arrested. MS Mohammad and Yassin sitting on rocks.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Israel's policy and practice of
settling parts of it's population and new immigrants in Palestinian
territories constitutes a flagrant
violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
(UN Resolution 446)
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel's West Bank Barrier violates international law and it's continuing construction is
considered an illegal activity.
(July 9, 2004)
WS picture in picture, plain clothes soldiers and soldiers arrest protester
(Full screen) soldiers arrest man pick him up and carry him.
(shot continues) MS man being carried.
LS two soldiers. WS youth slingshot.
MS Yassin and Mohammad sitting.
LS three soldiers. WS stone throwers advance. MS protesters duck tear gas.
Remove lens cap. Tear gas. WS youth carried to ambulance.
WS men approach youth lying in road.
LS stone throwers by trees. WS youth lying in road. WS ambulance approaches.
CU medical worker.
LS soldiers on top of hill. WS tear gas. LS man covers tear gas. WS stone throwers by trees. ELS army vehicle ZOOM in to soldier shoots tear gas. CU tear gas canister, explodes.
LS stone throwers by trees. WS stone throwers and army vehicle.
MCU Yassin, ZOOM out to MS Yassin and Mohammad.
Yassin in Batman suit running. MS. CU.
CU Yassin. MCU Mohammad.
CU Yassin
MS Mohammad
Batman and Superman walk past mosque.
MCU Yassin.
WS Batman and superman fighting.
Mohammad, Yassin and Dad.
MS Yassin on bicycle. MS Dad fixing bike. WS Dad fix bike and kids.
MCU Dad. Batman and superman running.
ZOOM out from detail map of Bil'in. DSLV to map of Israel and West Bank. ZOOM into Qalqilya region. ZOOM in to detail map of Qalqilya. Wall highlighted, TITLE: Completed Barrier / Wall.
MS boy at farm, Moaman.
TITLE (typewriter effect): Qalqilya is almost completely surrounded
by the Israeli Barrier, with only two entry/exit points.
This is one of the most fertile
agricultural areas in the West Bank.
Approximately 3000 dunams of land have been confiscated, containing 19 wells, accounting for 30% of Qalqilya's water supply.
MCU Moaman.
WS murals on wall. TITLE: unconfirmed. WS face mural.
WS long straight wall PAN to curved wall.
INT MCU Moaman.
MS Moaman and brothers in car. MCU steering wheel.
MCU DAD driving. TRACK street front. TRACK street side.
LS martyrs poster. WS martyrs poster. steering wheel PAN to sunset street.
WS children playing football.
EXT house.
CU feet up stairs. MS Moaman on roof
WS house PAN to wall. MS Moaman.
WS greenhouses and wall. WS exit car. MCU car window and wall. EXT WS boy on couch.
WS Moaman makes fire.
WS two boys lounge.
MCU Moaman.
MS barbed wire. MCU Moaman.
Tractor.
MCU Moaman. Wire fence. Pole and watch tower.
LS watch tower and wall.
MS Moaman and shop. CU Moaman. MS Moaman.
LS town and farms PAN to wall. LS sewer gates. WS sewer gates.
MS Moaman.
WS mural eyes. Mural pig. Mural bird. Mural hand. Watchtower.
WS boys walk towards mural. WS waiting for checkpoint. WS fence and people. Stop sign. Soldiers.
CU Moaman.
LS PAN wall.
MCU Moaman and shop. WS wall. WS wall.
CU Moaman.
TITLE: Palestine Kids
Picture in picture, CU Yassin in Batman suit. TITLE: Yassin
Pic in pic, MS Bessel. TITLE: Bessel. DSLV to pic in pic Diana. TITLE: Diana.
Pic in pic MCU Mohammad. TITLE: Mohammad.
Pic in pic MS Moaman at farm. TITLE: Moaman.
Pic in pic MS Mufida.
END CREDITS: Producer Director
Corrie Birch
Pic in pic MS Diana and dad. LS police jeep.
END CREDITS: Shot & Edited by
Corrie Birch
Music
"Classic Lute", "Sad Orchestra", "Egyptian", "Palestine Beats" by Silver
"Eleanor's Journey" by Numbawan
Post Production Translation
Malek Jwabrah
Location Translation
thank you to everyone who helped out
Arrest Footage courtesy of Yassin and Mohammad's Dad
Maps extracted from
UN OCHA-oPT-April 2005
Additional Maps
Jesse Birch
Special Thanks
ISM (International Solidarity Movement)
Palestinian Happy Child Center
Ministry of Education
Kurdoba Girl's School
Bil'in Primary School
The Faisel
EAPPI (Ecumenical Accompaniers)
CPT (Christian Peacemaker Team)
Qalqilya University English club
B'tselem
jumanah Odeh
Jasihl & Nancy
Carmela Omari
Hashem
Jason Moore
Banksy
Bob Birch
Dr Fahmi Hashash
Copyright. New Angle Productions. 2006.