Border Stories
2013

Digital Video

39 minutes

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Border Stories is a film composed of a series of compelling situations documenting a journey through isolated moments in the lives of individuals living between two seas, along the contested stretch of land between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in Israel and the West Bank.

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Moving across both sides of a complex and politically charged border, the film unfolds through a non-linear and deliberately non-confrontational structure. Rather than presenting a singular ideological position, it engages with a series of environments, encounters, and gestures that gradually reveal a network of poetic, poignant, and often mundane narratives centred on the everyday lives of ordinary people and communities.

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Positioned as an observational work, Border Stories reflects on ideas of place, temporality, identity, culture, and landscape, tracing how political realities become embedded within daily experience. Through moments of stillness, movement, and quiet human interaction, the film constructs a fragmented portrait of a territory shaped by division, memory, and coexistence.