THE NUMBER ZERO (Ala Sefer)
Director: Saed Andoni.
Palestine, 2002

The filmmaker returns to his hometown of Bethlehem during the Israeli army invasion of the city in April 2001.

He goes to a barber to cut his hair and finds that the barbershop represents a microcosm of the community, which comes to the shop in order to seek refuge from the warring world outside.

The shop’s regular patrons strive for a measure of normality in their conversations and the enactment of their usual rhythms of life.

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