June 1, 2002
7:00PM - Theater 3
40 Seats

97 minutes
Language: Arabic/Hebrew with English subtitles
Year and Country of Production: 2001. Israel
Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz

The Inner Tour was filmed a few months before the outbreak of the 2000-2001 Middle East violent clashes. Viewing the film retrospectively, one can discern the deep roots of the violent events that erupted even before the film's final editing. This documentary road-movie uses a simple situation, a 3-day bus tour, to present an emotional exploration of one of the most complicated and painful national conflicts of our time.

The film tells the story of a group of Palestinians, residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, who go on a 3-day sightseeing bus tour through the state of Israel.

Through its lighter and darker moments, it is an extremely charged journey, which covers not only geographical, but also mental and emotional distances. Israel and Palestine are two names for one single place. Two names that have evolved during the past century into two overlapping contradicting realities, heading towards a fatal collision.

A diverse group of people boards the bus at the dawn of the first day of the journey. They begin the trip as strangers, all from different backgrounds, but as they get to know each other and we get to know them, we realize one thing that is common to them all, the significance of Israel in their lives. It is not merely an unknown country that they are touring. It's the country they live in, but are not allowed to move about it. It is an alienating state, under whose occupation they live. For some, it is the land from which they were exiled. Now traveling through tourist sites, towns and villages of this so close yet so far country, they see and meet Israelis, and discover how easy and how hard it is for them to be here.