Recreation of an astonishing true story from the First Palestinian Intifada: the Israeli army’s pursuit of eighteen cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared ‘a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.’ Consequently, the dairy is forced to go underground, the cows continuing to produce their ‘Intifada milk’ with the Israeli army in relentless pursuit. Recreating the story from the perspectives of both the Beit Sahour activists and the cows, the filmmakers use stop-motion animation, drawings, and interviews to create an enchanting, inspirational tribute to the ingenuity and power of grassroots activism, illustrating the old adage that violence is a failure of the imagination.

This program screened as part of Haff 2015