The Devil’s Drivers

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In Masafer Yatta, home to many Palestinians, Israelis have built highly fortified settlements, cutting off the inhabitants from their lands and leaving them with no other possibility but to work as migrant workers in Israel. Two Bedouin cousins are among the drivers who risk their lives smuggling workers over the border in order to provide for their families. Between them and the destination, there is the Naqab desert of which they know every inch and the heavy presence of the Israeli military patrols.

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Mohammed Abugeth, born in Jerusalem, studied Computer Science at Al-Quds University and worked as a production assistant at Idioms Films in Ramallah. In 2013, he moved to Germany to study International Media Management at the Deutsche Welle Academy, graduating in 2015 with a Master of Fine Arts. Since then, he has been working as a fiction and documentary filmmaker and researcher in Berlin. He was part of Berlinale Talent 2024 and The Devil’s Drivers is his first feature film. He also directed Fever (2010) Birds in Jerusalem (2013) and Irene and Steve and Grenzfahrer (2017).

Daniel Carsenty graduated in 2015 from the Konrad Wolf Film Academy in Potsdam, Germany. His first feature film After Spring Comes Fall (2015) won the award for Best Feature at the Zsigmong Vilmos Festival in Sziget, Hungary. In the following years he worked for Arte and BBC as a TV journalist in the Middle East. In 2020 he moved to Los Angeles as a directing fellow at the American Film Institute, where he currently works and lives. His films include: the shorts Memory Drive (2006), The Comfort Zone (2011), Yigal (2013), My Fourth Death (2013).