Lia Tarachansky On The Side Of The Road
Fri 4 September 2015
The film tells the story of Israel's biggest taboo - the nation’s collective denial of the ethnic cleansing of 1948 as told by those who perpetrated it.
Former West Bank settler Lia Tarachansky looks at Israelis’ collective amnesia of the fateful events of 1948 when the state of Israel was born and most of the Palestinians became refugees. She follows the transformation of Israeli veterans trying uncover their denial of the war that changed the region forever. Tarachansky then turns the camera on herself and travels back to her settlement where that historical erasure gave birth to a new generation, blind and isolated from its surroundings. Attempting to shed a light on the country’s biggest taboo, she is met with outrage and violence.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Lia Tarachansky.
