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TALKING TO THE ENEMY is a ground breaking documentary that follows the friendship between an Israeli magazine editor, Chaim Shur, and a Palestinian journalist, Muna Hamzeh. The film includes powerful imagery: Hamzeh's tears when she visits her old family home in Jerusalem; the stunned look on her face as she witnesses Holocaust Memorial Day in Tel Aviv; and Shur's own memories of the death in action of his twenty-two-year-old paratrooper son. In one extraordinary moment, the two are overwhelmed by compassion for each other, and these "enemies" weep on each other's shoulders. This film is a prayer for peace. Polish-born director Mira Hamermesh is an artist of distinction. Her award-winning films include the acclaimed MAIDS AND MADAMS, about South African apartheid. She lost both parents in the Holocaust.
