Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice from land and labour. He is displaced from his birthplace Haifa seeking refuge in Beirut, and again to Zirku Island, for work on an offshore oil platform and work camp in the Arab Gulf. A Stone’s Throw trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and labour in the region and the Zionist colonisation of Palestine. The film rehearses a history of the Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, the oil labourers of Haifa blow up a BP pipeline.

A major airline invites a small film collective to screen their films on anti-colonial resistance aboard its flights. Many reasons to accept, and just as many to refuse. A conversation unfolds — about the airline’s role in forced deportations, about budgets that don’t exist, about the risk of contributing to the whitewashing of its image. But also about the willingness of some insiders to confront the company’s colonial past, and about the chance to expose problematic policies and share a message with thousands of passengers.