Yalla Baby!

Director: Victoria Schmidt, Alexander Peiler
Year: 2018
Israel/Palestine
Duration: 44 Minutes

A documentary on the encounter of two cultures, on ten German and Palestinian teenagers, who meet in Jenin, Palestine and their dreams and on the burning desire to finally set eyes on the sea.

In summer 2016, in cooperation with Cinema Jenin e.V., Victoria Schmidt, Alexander Peiler together with 4 German teenagers fly to Jenin, Palestine. Here they work together with 6 Palestinian teenagers in a theatre workshop. They retell an old Palestinian tale, travel the West Bank, get to know the others foreign culture and overcome walls that seemed far too high before.