Inch'Allah (2013)
Directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Film Synopsis

Chloé, a young and somewhat idealistic French-Canadian, lives in Israel but works as a midwife at a community hospital in a Palestinian refugee camp on the West Bank.  Relations between Israelis and Palestinians are more strained than usual, following a wave of violent attacks by Palestinian activists and heavy-handed Israeli reprisals.  Determined not to take sides in the conflict, Chloé strikes up a close friendship with individuals in both camps - an Israeli soldier named Ava, one of her former neighbours; and Rand, one of her many Palestinian patients.  With her husband being detained in an Israeli prison, Rand, a heavily pregnant woman, lives with her mother and brothers, Safi and Faysal.

Time and again, Chloé's impartiality over the on-going Israeli-Palestinian conflict is threatened by the atrocities she sees being committed by both sides.   As a result of traffic controls imposed by the Israeli army, Rand is unable to get to hospital in time as she goes into labour, and ends up giving birth in the back of a car.  As a result, her newborn baby son dies.  This, together with the news that her husband is to remain in an Israeli prison for the next twenty-five years, leads Rand to accuse Chloé of being an apologist for Israeli aggression.  After another terrorist attack, Chloé pays a visit to Rand's older brother Faysal at his printing works and has another shock in store for her...