West of the Jordan River

Name: West of the Jordan River
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 26, 2018
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Amos Gitai, Ari Shavit, Bill Clinton, Gideon Levy, Yitzhak Rabin

2018

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: January 26, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Amos Gitai, Ari Shavit, Bill Clinton, Gideon Levy, Yitzhak Rabin

Summary: Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary Field Diary with this portrait of the citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. West of the Jordan River shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourningAmos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary Field Diary with this portrait of the citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. West of the Jordan River shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers, and even Jewish settlers. Faced with the failure of politics to solve the occupation issue, these men and women rise and act in the name of their civic consciousness. This human energy is a proposal for long-overdue change. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Amos Gitai

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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Nikki Baughan

Jan 22, 2018

Gitai’s personal knowledge of his people and their deep-rooted issues lends West Of The Jordan River a powerful intimacy. Read full review

Pamela Pianezza

Jan 22, 2018

The 66-year-old helmer delivers not only a thought-provoking, moving and surprisingly optimistic documentary, but an intimate, handmade artifact. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

Jan 22, 2018

Clearly weighted towards Gitai's own liberal political stance, but incorporating a range of other views too, West of the Jordan River is a dry and sometimes depressing film, but informative and humane too. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jan 25, 2018

Through interviews with Israeli politicians, and Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank, West of the Jordan River gives voice to peace-seeking residents on both sides of the conflict. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Vikram Murthi

Jan 26, 2018

West of the Jordan River works best when Gitai involves himself in the interviews. Gitai is a compelling screen presence—empathetic and patient, but also skeptical and necessarily forceful. Read full review

Oleg Ivanov

Jan 22, 2018

Amos Gitai regularly takes incidents and anecdotes out of context, making it difficult for viewers who lack intimate knowledge of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to follow the proceedings. Read full review

Simon Abrams

Jan 25, 2018

The maddeningly unfocused Israeli documentary West of the Jordan River doesn’t reveal anything insightful about Gaza settlers’ reasons for either supporting or rejecting a two-state solution. Read full review

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