Michel Khleifi was born in Nazareth of Christian-Arab parents and now lives and works in Brussels. Like his first, highly acclaimed film, Wedding in Galilee, Canticle of the Stones, in both style and content, attempts to give expression to the Palestinian experience under the Israeli occupation. Narrative and documentary combine to situate a love affair in a setting of repression and seething resistance: Jerusalem during the Intifada. The story is of a couple's reunion after eighteen years of separation following his imprisonment for political activity, and her escape to the U.S. It is a sometimes jarring mixture of theater and reality that gives us, on the one hand, a chamber piece; and on the other, footage of street fighting with Israelis and interviews with Palestinians, shot by Khleifi last year in Jerusalem and Gaza.