A Certain Distance was shot from the Quneitra overlook in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights which became a spot to gaze at the war in Syria. The edit borrows the audio of a sequence in Omar Amiralay's 1997 film 'A Plate of Sardines', in which Amiralay asks Director Mohammad Malas to walk the same exact scene of ruin in Malas's 1974 film on Israel's return of his home-town of Quneitra in rubble.