The Wanted 18
by Paul Cowan & Amer Shomali
2 Oct. at 3:30pm
4 oct. at 5pm
Cinéma Le Mondial
Directed by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan
Cinematography : Daniel Villeneuve, Germán Gutierrez
Music by Benoit Charest
Produced by Saed Andoni, Ina Fichman, Dominique Barneaud and Nathalie Cloutier
Distributed by National Film Board of Canada
The Wanted 18 is a 2014 Palestinian-Canadian animated documentary about the efforts of Palestinians in Beit Sahour to start a small local dairy industry during the First Intifada, hiding a herd of 18 dairy cows from Israeli security forces when the dairy collective was deemed a threat to Israel's national security.
The film combines documentary interviews with those involved in the events, archival footage, drawings, black-and-white stop-motion animation as well as re-enactments.
> Awards
2014: Best Documentary of the Arab World, Abu Dhabi Film Festival5
2014: Carthage Film Festival: Golden Tanit in the documentary competition
2015: Traverse City Film Festival: Best Documentary
2016: Golden Circle Best Documentary, Sherbrooke World Film Festival