This Is Where My Dog Is Buried

On the dawn of 4th of June, 1989, an Israeli patrol on the Lebanon-Israel border was ambushed by a Palestinian squad that tried to infiltrate to the Israeli side. A whole orgy of missiles, grenades and gunshots was burst. By the end of it, after 12 minutes, the three Palestinians were shot dead, and the Bedouin scout of the Israeli patrol died as well, shot from the back. The Israeli patrol commander, Lieutenant Nir Keinan, was injured by a bullet that had hit his right palm."This is where my dog is buried" is a road movie, which describes in a very personal way the accounts that led Nir Keinan, the director, once a settler in the Golan Heights, to the moments where he had to choose between killing or dying. Nir is traveling back to the landscapes of his childhood, in order to check how his belonging to this land was built, a belonging that brought him to this readiness, to kill or get killed for that land. The film is actually looking inside the land itself, to see who's buried there, from the director's dog to those he had to kill, A personal commentary follows the trip, slowly revealing what's under the ground and its meaning. Along the film this commentary is more and more addressed to the one Nir calls Nur, his mirror picture, the Palestinian commander from that deadly dawn on the Lebanese border. Nur's body was buried and dig out three times. The Arab-Israeli conflict mirrored from the peephole of one participant ?a settler who refused to serve in the occupied territory, an officer in the Israeli army who was kicked out of the army, a killer who became obsessed with the accounts of the bodies of those he killed.