On returning from my recent trip to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, where, among other things, I was doing some hands-on research for what I hope will be our next short film - "I'm not an animal” - I am sharing a moment from the trip where I found myself in a most surreal circumstance at 5am one morning at the Qalqilia checkpoint. (Qalqilia being a Palestinian city that has been surrounded by the Apartheid Wall on all sides, left with one main entry/exit for the locals and has essentially