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Inch'Allah (If Allah wills)
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I read in an interview to Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, the director of the film, that she said: Inch'Allá is not a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but about a woman from Quebec in Palestine. It is about a woman doctor who gets stuck in the middle of a war. I wanted to talk about something that does not belong to us, something that happens when we face a reality that is greater than us.
Although Anaïs has lived there and has friends on both sides, she is wise enough to reserve her judgments and not to take sides. She refers to the war and the political conflicts, with the same delicacy and elegance she uses to refer to the human and social conflict.
Without trying to trifle with our affections and to move us to tears, she shows how a woman doctor, who lives in Israel and works at a hospital in the West Bank, cannot remain as a mere witness in a war that is devouring her. Her personal relationship with people on both sides will help her to change her mind. When her best friend is one of the victims, she will accept what she had always been rejecting.
To be closer to the audience, the film has almost entirely been shot with a hand-held camera. The story is presented as a puzzle where the pieces fit together and where only at the end we understand the chilling first scene.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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