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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • GathrFilms
  • 1 h 15 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • GathrFilms
  • 1 h 15 m

Summary Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel." In response to the Israeli occupation of the We...

Directed By: Amer Shomali

Written By: Paul Cowan

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • GathrFilms
  • 1 h 15 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • GathrFilms
  • 1 h 15 m

The Wanted 18

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel." In response to the Israeli occupation of the We...

Directed By: Amer Shomali

Written By: Paul Cowan

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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
59
50% Positive
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33% Mixed
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17% Negative
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80
Jun 16, 2015
This movie about violence and how it comes into intimate spaces refuses to make even animals only animal. It's beautiful and important and very strange.
By Diana Clarke FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 19, 2015
The absurdist sectarian comedy gives way, as it inevitably does in this conflict, to tragedy, and death both human and animal. While Shomali resists easy cynicism while seeming to have almost every excuse to indulge it, he doesn’t try to craft a hopeful parable out of his material either.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 18, 2015
Even at 75 minutes, it can feel padded with footage whose connection to the central plot is tenuous. But at its best, The Wanted 18 follows a worthy tradition of highlighting absurdities that arise during conflict.
By Ken Jaworowski FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 22, 2015
Imaginatively interspersing testimonials with reenactments, comic panels and Claymation, the film plays out like an entertaining absurdist satire.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 18, 2015
It’s a story of utopia ruined by evil Israeli oppressors, and though that’s certainly accurate on some level, the film simply doesn’t go into enough detail, or question the interviewees’ rose-tinted nostalgia.
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38
Jun 15, 2015
The eccentric artistry calls so much attention to itself as to make the subject of the film feel like an afterthought.
By Wes Greene FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bellota Films, Dar Films Productions, Intuitive Pictures, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Release Date Jun 19, 2015
Duration 1 h 15 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.wanted18.com/
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Awards

Abu Dhabi Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Traverse City Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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