The Inner Tour

Filmed just a few months before the Middle Eastern violence erupted again in 2000, THE INNER TOUR is an unusual road movie which portrays the story of a group of Palestinians, who join a three-day sight-seeing bus tour through the state of Israel. Out of this small simple story about a group of people on a tour, a dramatic unfinished journey erupts and reaches down to the deepest roots of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, one of the most painful national conflicts of our time. The youngest of this eclectic group is 2 years old. The oldest is 80. They come from different cities, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan and Tunisia, and have very different backgrounds, yet one thing that seems to unite them all, the place which they are now visiting as tourists - Israel. Whether on a beach, at an archaeological site, a historical museum or a nightclub, the film's protagonists see and experience the country in a different way than anyone else would. And through these eyes looking out of the bus windows, a new, unique and strange portrait of Israel is created.