An award-winning film that explores the complex relationship between Palestinians & Israelis and the transformative journey when faced with meeting the other. It offers an inside look at the people behind the headlines who have grown up with contradictory narratives and have only known each other through hate, inequality, and violence. As people on both sides of the conflict meet with “the other,” they reckon with the trauma and fear that they’ve inherited—and hope to transcend.

Screening will be followed by a Q+A with director Joy Sela and Palestinian activist Osama Elewat. Presented in partnership with Albi.

A growing chorus of Palestinians and Israeli Jews are speaking up – often in cross-cultural pairs – for peace, justice, empathy and sanity. The Path Forward seeks to amplify the voices of three of the most eloquent and inspiring of these pairs. Interweaving their moving on stage dialogues in the U.S. and Europe with their poignant life stories, this documentary creates a tapestry of voices for peace and reconciliation. The film contains no images of war, death or campus protests. Instead, viewers will be immersed in the mind and heart opening world of innovative thinkers finding a new path forward.

Screening will be followed by a Q+A with directors Julie Cohen and Mo Husseini. Co-sponsored by New Israel Fund and Standing Together NYC.

A comedy television series set at a bilingual Jewish-Arab high school in Israel. This unique setting serves as the background for many challenges, dilemmas, and conflicts that the students, teachers, and parents deal with throughout the episodes. The children studying at Madrasa are learning how to break down age-old walls of suspicion, racism, and hostility.

Screening will be followed by a Q+A. Presented in partnership with IATF.

In 2001, a group of Israeli women, most of them in their sixties, established Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch), an organization dedicated to guarding the human rights of Palestinians who must regularly pass through checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank. For years, these women stood at the heart of the conflict and documented the troubling activity taking place at the checkpoints, giving viewers a never-before-seen look at the daily struggle of Palestinians.

Screening will be followed by a Q+A. Sponsored by New Israel Fund. 

Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines. Petty vanity and a sense of entitlement leads to corruption, and the unwillingness of the Netanyahus to give up power. The extreme right senses opportunity in Bibi’s weakness, and the dominos fall.

Screening followed by Q+A with director Alexis Bloom and producer Alex Gibney.

An eye-opening journey into the lives of Palestinian and Israeli women and men who lost a child or parent in the conflict. Instead of responding with hate and anger, Bushra, Rami, Meytal and Bassam are transforming their grief into a bridge for reconciliation and leading a movement of bereaved people to end the violence.

The film follows their paths from devastating trauma to courageous activism. Their stories are all part of a controversial grassroots movement of ‘Israeli Palestinian Bereaved Families’ who stand side-by-side to end the violence and build a future based on dignity and equality. Despite fierce political and family opposition, they refuse to give up, even with the current devastation.

Screening will be followed by a Q+A with director Esther Takac, moderated by Phylisa Wisdom. Presented in partnership with NYJA.