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Trapped in Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel, you team up with Ka, a cynical, flightless parrot, to solve puzzles, uncover hidden stories and confront life behind the wall, where art, humour and politics meet.
You arrive at Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem just as your taxi to the airport becomes unreachable, cut off by sudden closures and confusion at the checkpoint. What was meant to be a short stay turns into an unexpected delay. Inside the hotel, surrounded by provocative artworks of Banksy and biting political satire, you meet Ka, a cynical, flightless rock star parrot who seems as trapped as the city itself. Sharp-tongued and darkly funny, Ka becomes your reluctant guide. Together, you will explore the hotel room by room, uncovering interactive puzzles rooted in art, history, and the everyday realities of life under occupation.

Each space reveals hidden stories about borders, movement, memory, and resilience. What begins as a darkly comic tour slowly deepens into something more personal and unsettling.
As you progress, humour meets frustration, absurdity, tenderness. The hotel becomes a microcosm of Bethlehem, a place where creativity persists despite restriction. The journey culminates in a surreal confrontation with the wall itself, forcing you to question freedom, perspective, and your own role as a visitor looking in.

Credits

Director
Amer Shomali
Screenwriter
Amer Shomali, Ross Dungan
Producer
May Odeh, Oliver Simon, Joram Willink, Clarens Grollmann, Ahmed El-Masry
Production Company
Odeh Films

About the Director

Amer Shomali
Amer Shomali is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist, using painting, films, digital media, installations and comics as tools to explore and interact with the sociopolitical scene in Palestine. Much of Shomali’s work examines the creation and the use of the Palestinian revolution’s iconography. Shomali co-directed an award-winning animated documentary, ‘The Wanted 18’, which premiered at the Tor
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