I recently saw this at the 2008 Palm Springs International Festival of Films. This is a good film by veteran filmmaker, director and writer Amos Gitai and it's interesting to see an event that was recently an international news story recreated in a feature film. The film's title comes from the 2005 forced evacuation of Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip by Israel in a move that rather than calling it giving up the Gaza the government of Israel referred to it as disengagement. The film begins on a train when a beautiful Palestinian woman shares conversation and a cigarette with a handsome Israeli man. They each have several different ethnic backgrounds to their genealogy bu Israeli and Palestinian are what stand out. "We're all Bedouin's" the woman flatly observes referring to the Arab and non-Arab nomadic tribes of the Middle East. The film then turns to it's storyline about a Israeli soldier Uli (Leron Levo) returning to his father's home in France for his funeral. His sister Ana (Juliette Binoche) is also there for the funeral and finds out that the daughter Dana (Dana Ivgy) that she gave up is a schoolteacher at a Kibbutz on the Gaza who Ana's father had been in contact with and wanted to leave a large part of his estate to. The funeral features a strange scene with American soprano Barbara Harris singing over the old man's body. An American black woman who now lives in Sweden singing a German opera over the corpse of a French-Jew is rather odd. Harris in reality is a champion of human rights and works closely as a UN Ambassador for Life for refugee causes so the director uses this to underscore the plight of those in the Gaza who were forced to leave during the Israeli pullout. Levo's acting is a little flat and uninspired and Binoche's acting is over the top and is in fact over acting. The story set in France gets a little dull at times but becomes energized once they arrive in Gaza. Uli on duty to evacuate settlers and Ana to find her daughter. I would give this a 7.0 out of 10.