The Wanted 18

What does cows have to do with Palestinian nonviolent resistance? The documentary The Wanted 18 tells this highly unusual story by combining stop-motion animation, drawings and interviews. It is placed in the petite, Christian village Beit Sahour on the West Bank, in the period leading up to the first Palestinian intifada almost 30 years ago. In an attempt to establish an independent Palestinian economy, the villagers stopped paying taxes and started to produce milk from their own cows. Israel, who did not take these events lightly, declared the cows “a national security threat” and the animals were hidden. The story about how the eighteen “Christian cows” threatened Israel is one of the best examples of the absurdity about this seemingly everlasting Israeli occupation of Palestine. Screened in collaboration with Oslo Dokumentarkino.