Zero degrees of separation
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When your lover is most often considered your enemy, your relationship has more at stake than the average affair. Selim and Ezra, a gay Palestinian-Israeli couple, are fighting for the right to live together in Jerusalem. Edit and Samira, a lesbian Palestinian-Israeli couple, are trying to figure out how to bridge the divide between their cultures. Existing on the margins of their societies, the couples cross borders daily, sometimes physically, sometimes metaphorically. Through their lives we gain a unique perspective on the Middle East conflict.
Interwoven into these stories is director Elle Flanders own rich narrative of growing up with Zionist grandparents intimately involved in the founding of the state of Israel. Drawing the past into the present through the use of home movies, the director retraces her grandparents travels as they tour a fledgling nation brimming with pioneering, joyous youth, immigrants, refugees and endless open vistas of the Holy Land.
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Duration: 89 min
Year: 2005
Country: Canada
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Director: Elle Flanders
Producer: Elle Flanders | Paul Lee | Peter Starr
Scriptwriter: Elle Flanders
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