Shoot and Cry

A feature documentary written and directed by Helene Klodawsky

Producer: The National Film Board of Canada and Channel Four Television/UK, 1988

Broadcasters: Channel Four Television (UK), CBC, CBC News Channel, Vision TV, Knowledge Network, Finnish TV, Argentine TV, Singapore TV, Spanish TV.

Shot in Israel and the West Bank just prior to the first Intafada, this hour–length film explores the Palestinian/Israeli conflict through the eyes of two young men – an eighteen year old Israeli conscript about to serve in the West Bank and a Palestinian worker in Israel who comes from Jenin.

Premiered at the Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal, and shown in the following cities: Tel Aviv, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Los Angeles, Boston and Toronto.