Ticket to Jerusalem

Name: Ticket to Jerusalem
Genre: Drama

Netherlands, Palestine, France · 2003

Director
Starring Areen Omari, Gassan Abbas, George Ibrahim
Genre Drama

This hybrid of documentary and fiction follows Jabir, who runs a mobile cinema from his old truck throughout the West Bank while his wife works to bring emergency medical care to Palestinians. When a schoolteacher invites Jabir to make a screening in Jerusalem, he becomes determined to make the pilgrimage.

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The New York Times by Dana Stevens

It has an air of melancholy humor as its characters fumble toward normalcy.

Variety by Derek Elley

Attempts to meld reality and artifice but to uninspiring results.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Masharawi's use of actual footage of clogged roadblocks and scary police actions bring a topical immediacy to his film, but it also asks an important question about the relevance of art during a time of crisis.

Village Voice by Mark Holcomb

Largely sidesteps sentiment in favor of a tentative hopefulness.