At most festivals, such curious objects as The Ornithologist or The Human Surge would likely remain the exception rather than the rule, but then Locarno isn’t most festivals.
Tricked out with so many scattershot digressions and footnotes, the film comes off like the Egyptian version of I Heart Huckabees.
In Gate of the Sun, Palestinians may not have the right to walk on their homeland, but they do have the right to speak and dream.