The Inner Tour

The Record and the Narrative. The Documentary Cinema of Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, born in Jerusalem in 1969, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. His award-winning cinematic investigations into questions of law, power and testimony in Israel and Palestine are shown at all the world’s major festivals. “The Law in These Parts” (2011) received the award for best international documentary film at the Sundance Festival. “The Viewing Booth” (Der Spiegel, 2021) screened in the Forum of the Berlinale and was voted best documentary of the year by Rolling Stone. Alexandrowicz is currently working on a new project as a fellow in the ConTrust excellence project at Goethe University. As part of this fellowship, the DFF is showing three of his films, each with an introduction and subsequent discussion with experts.

“The Inner Tour” is a documentary road movie, filmed on the eve of a new wave of violent conflict in the Middle East in 2001. A group of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza embark on a three-day bus tour of Israel – an emotional exploration of what is probably the most complicated and painful national conflict of the present day.

Film screening of: The Inner Tour, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel 2001, 94 min.

With an introduction by Laliv Melamed followed by a discussion with the director.