Using images shared on the Internet by Israelis during the Gulf War, the First Intifada and trance music gatherings, Shuruq Harb composes the portrait of a Palestinian teenager in the 1990s, in the mirror of Israeli pop culture.
To transport a newly bought sofa to your home is an easy task. In a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, this task transforms itself into a Sisyphean journey revealing the complexities and absurdities of the everyday life at the Shatila camp in Lebanon.
Palestine is occupied by the international media and is the stage for sensational news stories. Palestinians are presented as "performers" in these dramatic international evening newscasts and Palestinian filmmakers find themselves compelled to comply with their violent "meta-script" and its good-guy and bad-guy-narratives. This film by the young Palestinian filmmaker Ihab Jadallah both parodies and rejects this constraint. THE SHOOTER rebells against the image of Palestine as propagated by the international media and subverts this staged representation of his country and its people. In his film the "performer" becomes active: he departs from the official script and gradually breaks out of character.
Shady and his sister Maryam are very excited to visit their sick grandfather on the other side of the wall. Their elder brother Mohammed arrives in a hurry with the permit to cross. They arrive at the checkpoint, but having a permit sometimes is not enough to let them pass.
