Many people think they understand what’s going on in Israel and Palestine today, but are they right?
Setting out to examine why 73% of Jewish Israelis were polled as supporting the way the war’s been fought in Gaza, our investigations quickly turn even darker than we’d imagined.
“Brave and honest. An unsparing search for truth and for some path through and past this terrible tragedy”
Gabor Maté
“Valuable Personal Documentary about Israel/Palestine Conflict”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“I loved this important film”
Miriam Margolyes
Screenings
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Further UK cinema screening dates coming soon
After October 7th the world was shocked and sympathetic following the Hamas attacks in Israel. Within a few short months most of this sympathy had gone as the world recoiled in horror at the brutality of the Israeli response to these attacks, while 73% of Israeli Jews are seemingly unperturbed. As a British-American Jew Gillian wants to know what has happened to make any Jews, a people who have experienced oppression, othering, and genocide, exhibit such moral and humanitarian numbness. More widely, how does the moral disengagement that allows atrocities the world over, happen? In her quest to understand, Gillian meets people across numerous areas of expertise including mental health, politics, the mediascape, and religion. Gillian thought she was making a film about trauma. But the reality turned out to be so much darker than she’d imagined as the mechanisms behind our disintegrating democracies and international laws are exposed.
