A Stone’s Throw

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice from land and labour. He is displaced from his birthplace Haifa, seeking refuge in Beirut, and again in Zirku Island, to work on an offshore oil platform and work camp in the Arabian Gulf. Aala Marma Hajar trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and labour in the region and the Zionist colonisation of Palestine. The film rehearses a history of the Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, the oil labourers of Haifa blew up a BP pipeline.