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The Documentary: Rulebreakers: The shepherd and the settler

Palestinian shepherds and Israeli activists

16/09/2020 GMT

The shepherd and the settler

Rulebreakers

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Rulebreakers, The shepherd and the settler

A Palestinian shepherd fights for his livelihood under pressure from Israeli settlers

A Palestinian shepherd fights for his livelihood under pressure from Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

Muhammad is a Bedouin shepherd in a remote corner of the West Bank called Rashash. His family has been herding sheep and goats in Rashash for 30 years and in Palestine for generations. But since Israeli settlers recently moved in nearby it has become difficult for Muhammad to graze his flock undisturbed.

When producer Max Freedman visits Rashash, he sees this conflict in action. One settler tries to scatter the sheep by driving towards them in an all-terrain vehicle. Another chases after the flock on horseback. An Israeli activist tries to use his body as a human shield.

After leaving Rashash, Max sets out to understand what he saw there. 


Presenter/reporter: Max Freedman
Producer: Max Freedman, Ilana Levinson, and Emily Bell
Editor:  Ilana Levinson
 
(Photo: Palestinian shepherds and Israeli activists on a hillside. Credit: Max Freedman)

The Documentary: Rulebreakers

We invite filmmakers more used to telling their stories in pictures to tell them in audio.

Rulebreakers -  a five-part series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Sundance Institute where we invite film-makers more used to telling their stories in pictures to tell them in audio.
In this series, hosted by the Iranian Artist and film maker Shirin Neshat we’ll meet  the imprisoned victims of more than 70 years of Danish colonial policy...in Greenland.  
There’s a young man who dreamed of  hacking the Pentagon from a laptop in his bedroom - and has had to live with the consequences ever since.
We’ve tracked down a Vietnam Veteran who’s spent 50 years mapping an America you’ve never heard of while riding freight trains.

We join Muhammad, a Palestinian Shepherd and his flock in the South Hebron hills of the West Bank who breaks all the rules of the land he walks through simply by existing.

And in Japan if you want to disappear from your life you can just pick up the phone and  a ‘Night Moving Company’ will turn you into one of the country’s ‘Johatsu,’ or literally ‘evaporated people.’ You can cease to exist.

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