A powerful-looking documentary is coming to the Vancouver International Film Festival:
Encounter Point is a new feature documentary about everyday leaders – a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother, a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother – who risk their lives and public standing to promote a nonviolent end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The film explores what drives these and thousands of other like-minded civilians to overcome their losses to work for peace.
Encounter Point premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the 2006 Audience Award for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. This summer, it screened in East and West Jerusalem, Gaza, Haifa, Jenin and the United Nations.
Hailed by Variety as a “Concise, intelligent docu[mentary]… Dynamically edited… deftly avoids schmaltz in its delineation of grief and its celebration of cross-cultural activism,” Encounter Point was directed by Ronit Avni, co-directed by Julia Bacha (co-writer/editor of the critically acclaimed documentary, Control Room) and produced by a Palestinian, Israeli and North American team.
To view the trailer, visit http://www.encounterpoint.com.
- September 28, 7:15pm, Empire Granville Cinema 2
- September 29, 10:30am, Empire Granville Cinema 5
- October 10, 12:30pm, Empire Granville Cinema 2
Empire Granville Cinemas
855 Granville Street (betw. Robson & Smithe)
More info on the VIFF showings here.
