God’s Country: The Settlers

The SettlersDirected by Shimon DotanOpens March 3 at Film Forum
The sound of howling wind and the Doppler whoosh of passing cars. We’re on Highway 90, the road that passes through Israel and Palestine. Then we pause and hear the sound of a faint prayer echoing in the breeze. This gives way to the clanking of industrial machines, carrying pieces of a portable residence off a truck. Then a man stands singing on a hill, starkly offsetting the brilliant, awe-inspiring desert before him. He&rs