9 Star Hotel

Thousands of impoverished Palestinian laborers leave the West Bank territory to find work at construction sites in ever-growing Israel, a scenario that uncannily recalls that of poor Mexican workers who illegally cross into the United States. With bedrolls and rucksacks on their backs and none of the documentation required to get through border checkpoints, these Palestinian men climb walls, sneak through forests and dodge indifferent streams of traffic coursing down a four-lane highway, all while keeping a sharp eye out for the border police and soldiers who regularly patrol the border areas. Eventually, the Palestinians reach their destination: a cluster of tiny ho...