Deux fois le même fleuve

In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish explorer, set out on a journey along the Jordan River from its source to the Sea of Galilee aiming for a personal transformation that would come out of the passage through the Holly Land. In the summer of 2011, the Israeli directors Effi Weiss and Amir Borenstein retraced McGregor’s steps and found mostly tourists and vacationers along the river’s path. The varied encounters, view of the landscape, and random conversations raised questions of kinship and ownership, closeness and distance, and the ability ‚ or inability ‚ to see the place through the biographical and ideological veils that have shaped us.