This is Where My Dog is Buried

A deadly choice: killing or dying. This is the dreadful personal experience that film director Nir Keinan revisits in his film. It starts on the Lebanon-Israel border at dawn on June 4th 1989. An Israeli patrol is ambushed by a Palestinian squad trying to infiltrate the Israeli side. The clash lasts for 12 minutes in which all three Palestinians are shot dead. Lieutenant Nir Keinan, commander of the Israeli patrol, suffers no more than a hand injury. Nir Keinan takes us on a personal journey to reconstruct the events that led him to this tragic turning point in his life when he had to decide between killing and being killed. As a settler in the Golan Heights, he refused to serve in the occupied territory. Later as an officer, he was kicked out of the Israeli Army. In his personal commentary, he begins a dialogue with Nur, the Palestinian commander he killed sixteen years ago. Through this very intimate story, the bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the horrors of war become stunningly vivid. The bodies of those killed will never stop talking. (DOK.fest München)