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| Checkpoint | |
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| Directed by | Yoav Shamir |
| Produced by | Amit Breuer Edna Kowarsky Elinor Kowarsky |
| Cinematography | Yoav Shamir |
| Edited by | Era Lapid |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | Israel |
| Languages | Hebrew, Arabic, English |
Checkpoint (original title: Machssomim) is a 2003 documentary film by Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir, showing the everyday interaction between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians at several of the region's Israel Defense Forces checkpoints. The film won five awards at various film festivals, including Best International Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, best feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and the Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Although the film was generally well received, the depictions of the check points were controversial and provoked strong reactions.[1][2]
The film was produced with the support of The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television.[3]
- ^ "* OFFOFFOFF film review CHECKPOINT (Machssomim) Israeli documentary movie by Yoav Shamir". Offoffoff.com. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
- ^ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (2009-11-03). "HASHMATSA / DEFAMATION (2009): Interview With Yoav Shamir | Twitch". Twitchfilm.net. Archived from the original on 2010-06-16. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
- ^ Yoav Shamir, Checkpoint, 2003; end credits