My Terrorist

Director: Yulie Cohen Gerstel
Israel 2002 58 mins DVD
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles

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In the 1970s a young woman was wounded by a terrorist from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine whilst she was a member of an El Al flight crew in London. As a grown woman with daughters of her own she is afraid to allow out on the streets in Israel for fear that they will be caught up in a suicide bombing. In this documentary journey Yulie is driven to seek reconciliation with the man who injured her and who is still serving his sentence in a UK prison. In the incessant climate of violence and hatred on both sdes Yulie tried to find a way to sow the seeds of reconciliation and to process her own experience in order to make sense of the world in which her children are living.

"The movie's disparate voices coalesce here as an emotionally charged microcosm of the conflict." New York Times

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