The Little will screen The Wanted 18 (Paul Cowan, Amer Shomali, Canada / Occupied Palestinian Territory / France 2014, 75 min.) as part of the 2015 Witness Palestine Film Series.

Is it possible that eighteen cows present a security issue for the Israeli Defense Force? Indeed it is. They become The Wanted 18. This delightful film mixes animation of the cows with the real-life situation of Palestinians attempting to survive. As Palestinians must also do to get by, the film adds humor to a deadly serious matter. The people shown are not actors; they're the actual people of the village. This is the story of the intifada as it played out in Beit Sahour, a Bethlehem suburb, in the late 1980s to early 1990s. A group of Palestinians tried to break the Israeli stranglehold on supplying goods by purchasing eighteen cows from Israel in order to produce an independent supply of milk. However, once they had the cows, the Israeli government became concerned it could set off widespread civil disobedience, so the villagers make a strong effort to the hide their bovine property amongst the town people.

[source: Little Theatre website, 2015-Sep-21]