No Way Through
2009 · 7m · UK
Directed by Ctrl.Alt.Shift
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative, provocative
A documentary short examining the mobility restrictions imposed on West Bank residents that prevent access to healthcare, framing this obstruction as a violation of fundamental human rights. Made as part of an activist film competition.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A prize-winning entry in a competition devoted to social justice filmmaking, No Way Through operates as compressed documentary argument — its brevity is disciplined, not convenient, and its subject warrants the vault's attention to socially engaged short form.
Ctrl.Alt.Shift activist competition winner about West Bank mobility restrictions. The film exists to make an argument it has already won with its intended audience. That's not necessarily a bad film, but it's not really cinema.
An activist-competition documentary about West Bank mobility restrictions and healthcare access — the form is shaped by its origin as a Ctrl.Alt.Shift contest entry. Honest in intent; the economy of means caps what it can do.
Festivals
- Ctrl.Alt.Shift Film Competition 2009, Winner