Director
Hind Choufani
Year
2015
Duration
120 min
Subtitles
Arabic/English
Trip Along Exodus explores the last 70 years of Palestinian politics as seen through the prism of the life of the filmmaker's father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and an academic and leftist intellectual who was one of the leaders of the opposition to Arafat within Fatah for 20 years. Born in Ma'liya in the Galilee and educated at the Hebrew University and Princeton, the multilingual and erudite Dr. Shoufani was also one of the Arab world's leading analysts of Israeli affairs for more than a generation. His opposition to policies meant to lead towards a two-state solution was grounded in his political clarity and farsightedness about the direction in which Israel was headed and his understanding that this would never, in fact, be allowed to be realised.