ScreenWize

A startlingly rigourous, fascinating and deeply moving investigatory documentary that examines the death of peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an Isreali army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip.
A few weeks after her little-reported death, an inquiry by Israeli military police concluded that Rachel Corrie died in an accident. In a highly unusual approach to documentary filmmaking, Jewish French-Isreali filmmaker Simone Bitton re-opens the case and slices through bipartisan Middle-East politics to investigate Rachel Corrie’s death the way a judicial court should have. A cinematic inquiry involving all the people involved in the incident – from military spokespersons and official investigators to the activists who were with Corrie when she died – Bitton establishes a candid new approach for the documentary form.

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