The Wanted 18
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Neutral, kinetic, measured documentary / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Through stop-motion animation, drawings and interviews, directors Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan recreate an astonishing true story from the First Palestinian Intifada: the Israeli army’s pursuit of eighteen cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel."
Our read · The Wanted 18 (2014) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive documentary · animation · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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