Trip Along Exodus (2014)

• 74%
• 2014
• Documentary
• Hind Shoufani

This film explores the last 70 years of Palestinian politics seen through the prism of the life of the filmmaker's father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and an academic and leftist intellectual who was one of the leaders of the opposition to Arafat within Fatah for 20 years. Born in Ma'liya in the Galilee and educated at the Hebrew University and with a PHD from Princeton, the multilingual and erudite Dr. Shoufani was also the Arab world's leading analyst of Israeli affairs for more than a generation. Using betamax, VHS, 8mm, 16mm, HD video, DV video, stills and animations/graphics, this documentary is an archival film tracing 70 years of Palestinian history in his life, from the Galilee in 48, to Princeton university in the 60's, to Beirut in the 70's and to the current war in Syria today. The film recreates Palestinian history using archive, family photos/8mm films, old photos, cartoons, animation, macro-photography footage, worldwide interviews, and multimedia formats in a video-art style documentary-a personal and political memoir.