Slideshow images of abandoned homes and emptied out public spaces carries along the story of two girls who find themselves in a kind of pre-apocalyptic paradise. Inspired by a massacre that took place in Gaza in July of 2006, Everywhere was the Same retells this event through the many voices that have come to speak about Palestinians and the occupation. Most importantly, a speech by Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafi at the Madrid Peace talks emerges as a voice of reason silenced in the film by unresolved, melancholic nostalgia.
© 2006 Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society