Director Hany Abu-Assad (Rana’s Wedding, The Fourteenth Chick) follows cab driver Rajai and his Ford van throughout Ramallah and Jerusalem. As they detour around roadblocks and navigate seldom-used short cuts, Rajai and his passengers, an eclectic mix of ordinary people and local celebrities (including politician Hanan Ashrawi and filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg), discuss amongst other things the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Eventually, Rajai’s own life story unfolds, as we hear about his family, his sideline pursuit of smuggling illegal CDs, and his dreams of a future abroad.

Ford Transit
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Country: Palestine
Genre: Narrative
2002, 80 min