Infiltrators - SOLD OUT!

This free screening, in collaboration with the University of Groningen, is in support and solidarity of the Palestine Cinema Days - with screenings of Palestinian movies all over the world, on November the 2nd (the date of the Balfour Declaration).

Khaled Jarrar, the Palestinian filmmaker of this documentary will be available after the movie for a Q&A session via videoconferencing from New York. For this compelling 2012 debut Khaled followed Palestinians for over four years on their nerve-racking search for openings in the wall at the heavily militarized Qalandia checkpoint in the West Bank.

Running, jumping and crawling through dark tunnels are part of a daily ordeal for Palestinians of all backgrounds seeking routes to East Jerusalem. A young woman visits the sick, construction workers scale the border wall to work in Israel, families hand over swaddled babies as they wade through dirty water in illegal tunnels, and boys pass fresh bread through holes in the fence. With his handheld camera, Jarrar hides on the side of the road or behind the barbed wire. He shows both the humiliation and the resistance against the absurdity, the monotony of waiting and the repression that are part of everyday life.