The young man is the same age as the Israeli soldier, the one who fires on the horse. The film is prophetic of the current uprising. I think a film only works that way. The characters should not stand in for political concepts. I stand for a cinema that decolonizes life, and I don't like neat distinctions between entertainment and politics.
Decolonization supersedes simple politics.
If I didn't understand things this way, I would be a propagandist, not a cultural creator. My heroes are artists like Pasolini, Godard, Fassbinder, Ozu, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Arthur Penn. I am striving to unite liberty, dignity and pleasure. Khleifi went on to make a film in 1990 called Canticle of the Stones, interweaving documentary and fiction footage, about the intifadah, which was widely seen as fiercely polemical. Within Israel, where the state has a variety of support mechanisms for filmmakers, a few Palestinians have made films.