Ford Transit

Filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad provides a rare chance to listen to conversations among West Bank Palestinians as they take a ride in a Ford mini-van shuttling between Ramallah and Jerusalem. Their driver is Rajai Khatib, a charismatic rebel adept at negotiating - and sometimes avoiding - the many roadblocks and checkpoints that make such daily commutes laborious. Aboard for the ride are a lawyer, a filmmaker, the mother of a suicide bomber and a local politician, who offer divergent views on President Bush, Yasser Arafat and the possibility of peace.