Palestine, United Kingdom, France, Jordan
A Palestinian doctor's nightly commute from Jericho to her home in Ramallah turns treacherous when her tire blows. Surrounded by coyotes on the desolate road, a stranger comes to her rescue. She soon realizes that he's not the Good Samaritan he seems to be.
COYOTES was born out of true stories and an urgent question: what happens when one’s humanity is pushed into a proverbial iron cage, an impossible corner? I grew up in Palestine, under a brutal Israeli occupation designed to weaponise our vulnerabilities and erode our will – through violence, surveillance, coercion, and fear. As I struggle to cope with an unremitting campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide directed at my people and my homeland, I felt compelled to create a cinematic response to a system built on layers of injustice and double standards. Set over one night, COYOTES is a neo-noir thriller that explores the inevitable outcome of impunity and domination.
A Palestinian doctor's nightly commute from Jericho to her home in Ramallah turns treacherous when her tire blows. Surrounded by coyotes on the desolate road, a stranger comes to her rescue. She soon realizes that he's not the Good Samaritan he seems to be.
