Between Fences
(Bein gderot)

Filmmaker Avi Mograbi joins up with theatre director Chen Alon to create a theatre workshop for African asylum seekers, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, who are detained in the Holot detention centre. Through exercises based on the Theatre of the Oppressed, the two artists transform the group of participants into the driving force of their proposal. Close to free indirect language, the documentary is structured around a camera that is active during the theatre sessions and which wanders freely when following the flow of discussions outside the sessions. Challenging how stories are told and the place of each individual – and staging what these men have to say –, Between Fences takes a look at the status and conditions of refugees in Israel. CD