A Documentary Tackles Cycles of Violence in Israel
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Hilla Medalia, documentary filmmaker, talks about her new documentary, "Mourning in Lod," about Israeli and Palestinian families connected through violence but also peace, business, politics and altruism.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYc, good morning again everyone. |
| 0:04.0 | There's a new document. |
| 0:07.0 | It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC. |
| 0:12.0 | Good morning again everyone. There's a new document. It's the Brian Larishow on WNYC. |
| 0:12.6 | Good morning again, everyone. |
| 0:14.2 | There's a new documentary that will have a screening |
| 0:16.4 | on Long Island next week that is unfortunately very timely right now, |
| 0:20.7 | more so than the filmmakers probably anticipated when they were making it. |
| 0:24.8 | It's called mourning in load. |
| 0:26.9 | That's mourning as in being in grief in load. |
| 0:29.6 | Load is a city in Israel between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with a mixed Jewish and Arab population. |
| 0:36.7 | The film documents three families, one Jewish, one Muslim, one Christian, whose lives |
| 0:42.3 | become intertwined during the last Israel-Hamass War, which was in |
| 0:46.8 | 2021. The film is mostly in Hebrew and Arabic, but near the beginning, the scene is set by a snippet of a news report in English. |
| 0:57.0 | Tension grows as the situation between Hamas and the Israeli military escalates and the skies become a battlefield. |
| 1:06.2 | Riots spread through mixed Arab and Jewish cities. |
| 1:09.6 | Jewish civilians attack a man they believe to be Arab. Arab civilians attack people they believe to be Jewish. |
| 1:17.0 | Violence has reached new levels in the past days. |
| 1:20.0 | We will also play one clip in Hebrew and one in Arabic from the film as we go and I'll read the |
| 1:26.4 | translations when we do. Morning in Load will be shown at the Hampton Stock Festival, a documentary festival that started yesterday and |
| 1:34.4 | runs into next week. |
| 1:36.0 | The screening will be next Tuesday, December 5th at 3 p.m. at the Bay Street Theater |
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