Origin: Palestine, Canada | Documentary | Director: Amer Shomali | not found minutes

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Theft of Fire

Palestinian director Amer Shomali is set to explore the allegedly illegal excavation of Palestinian antiquities by Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Dayan — who remains a divisive figure around the world — in a hybrid film project that examines the loss of cultural history by way of an action-packed, partly animated heist thriller.

A genre-defying feature documentary that tells the story of an art heist that never happened, set on the backdrop of true historical events, people, and places. Our story follows a duo of a Palestinian archeologist and an ex-Prisoner, who hatch a plan to steal back priceless antiquities from Israel's former Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan. Over several decades, Dayan had pilfered antiquities from Palestinian lands and with them, Palestine's own history. Theft of Fire is a heist documentary unlike any other that will force viewers to confront the question of what separates fact from fiction.

Producer: Rashid Abdelhamid