Jerusalem(s)
Director Pierre-Henry SALFATI
Countries
Duration 94 min
Synopsis
Jerusalem: the Old City, an age-old set for a never-ending spectacle, where both visitors and locals are players in a mind-boggling human comedy. The guides, experts in the “thrice saintly” City, who are as much at ease with the Torah, the Gospel or the Koran, at once humorous and plain-spoken, take us through the lacy streets of the Jewish, Arab and Christian neighbourhoods… and tell us three different stories - or rather, three different versions of the same story… From misunderstandings to mix-ups, Pierre-Henry Salfati lets us discover Jerusalem as we have never seen it before. And, around a street corner or outside a holy place, fundamental issues are allowed to burst into the open…What if the solution was in the street? What if everybody was finally saying the same thing?
Jerusalem: the Old City, an age-old set for a never-ending spectacle, where both visitors and locals are players in a mind-boggling human comedy. The guides, experts in the “thrice saintly” City, who are as much at ease with the Torah, the Gospel or the Koran, at once humorous and plain-spoken, take us through the lacy streets of the Jewish, Arab and Christian neighbourhoods… and tell us three different stories - or rather, three different versions of the same story… From misunderstandings to mix-ups, Pierre-Henry Salfati lets us discover Jerusalem as we have never seen it before. And, around a street corner or outside a holy place, fundamental issues are allowed to burst into the open…What if the solution was in the street? What if everybody was finally saying the same thing?