...The story of Israel's security checkpoints is one of competing narratives. The Israeli consensus holds that checkpoints are a necessary and effective tool to impede terrorists' movement and prevent their infiltration into Israel. The Palestinian position is that checkpoints are designed to humiliate and oppress Palestinians.

Filmmaker Yoav Shamir, who described the movie as "my part in the struggle against the injustices of occupation," steered away from the political and historical context in which the checkpoints exist. The resulting film is a narrowly focused documentary that conveys the Palestinian narrative while ignoring the existence of other perspectives. The film never touches upon the terror attacks that lead to the checkpoints, never explores the intelligence warnings that lead to their closure, and never reveals their effectiveness in preventing terror attacks.

The Truth about Checkpoints

o While the movie was being filmed between 2001 and 2003, over 800 Israelis were killed and nearly 5,000 were wounded in terror attacks, including more than 100 suicide attacks...