A compilation of groundbreaking, thought-provoking shorts:

72 GILO
Dir. Catie Damon – 2017 – 7 min – Narrative
When a bus picks up a group of stranded Israelis, a Palestinian girl decides to make it her stage.

ACROSS THE LINE
Dir. Nadav Shlomo Giladi – 2017 – 29 min – Narrative
An unexpected encounter between a Palestinian hitchhiker and a Jewish settler offers life-changing lessons.

THE TRANSFER
Dir. Michael Grudsky – 2016 – 22 min – Narrative
A group of Israeli soldiers and their Arab prisoner must challenge their prejudices when their van breaks down in the desert.

OUR HEROES
Dir. Yair Agmom – 2017 – 16 min – Narrative
A Jewish man and Arab woman recount their versions of a shared moment during the 1948 war.

Screening followed by Q&A with Nadav Shlomo Giladi. 

Co-presented by Givat Haviva: The Center for Shared Society. 

Award-winning writer Nir Baram grew up in a political household. Both his father and grandfather were members of the Knesset and Ministers in the Israeli Labor Party governments. As Baram begins to lose faith in even the possibility of a two-state solution, he decides to travel throughout the West Bank to speak with the local populations on both sides of the conflict. He learns that in crucial substantive ways, the two groups don’t start from a common foundation. So how can they even participate in the same conversation? While the international focus of a two-state solution generally revolves around the “Green Line,” the average West Bank Palestinian on the street cares little about 1967 political borders when they desire the land they lost in 1948. These surprising revelations force Baram to challenge his entire political belief system and reevaluate his own hopes for a peaceful resolution to this conflict.

Screening followed by Q&A with Nir Baram and Gili Getz (J Street) moderated by Ethan Bronner, senior editor at Bloomberg. 

Co-presented by Jewish Currents, J Street Education Fund, Partners for a Progressive Israel, and Park Slope Jewish Center.