The escalation of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians makes it hard to believe that the prospects for peace once seemed so bright. Only a few months before the recent intifada began, documentary videomaker Alexandrowicz accompanied a Palestinian tour group on a three–day trip to Israel. A weekend jaunt across the border becomes an unfinished journey traversing time in the recollections of the vanished past and the harsh realities of the present. With short Beneath the Borqa in Afghanistan (Iara Lee, U.S., 2001, 12 mins).