The Arab Dream

In this autobiographical film the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman goes in search of his past and possible future in occupied Palestine Wherever he looks he feels surrounded by images and places that have a political significance Can a landscape be free of meaning is there any point in striving for an approach that transcends all ideology Commissioned by the ARTE network as part of a series of films for the end of the millennium this film is a travelogue through Jerusalem Nazareth and Ramallah The film is a meditation on quotidian injustices and a formulation of an aesthetic and creative response to them