Film Screening:

Infiltrators

(Khaled Jarrar, 2012, 83 min, Palestine and United Arab Emirates, in Arabic with English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray)

--Introduced by Nick Denes, co-director of the Palestine Film Foundation (London), Q&A to follow.

The checkpoint is closed: "Detour, detour!" shouts a taxi driver, announcing the beginning of another uncertain search for ways around the barriers curtailing Palestinian movement in the West Bank. Infiltrators is a visceral "road movie" chronicling the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers.

Following this high stakes "game" of cat and mouse with a handheld video camera, Khaled Jarrar's debut documentary was the standout success at the 2012 Dubai International Film Festival, winning the Muhr Arab Documentary Prize, the Special Jury Prize, and the International Critics Prize.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), the Center for Jewish Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).