We Must Talk Now (2024)
is a 30-minute documentary created by an Israeli–Palestinian film team in the middle of one of the most violent moments in the region’s history.
While war raged outside, a joint memorial ceremony organized by The Parents Circle and Combatants for Peace was held in a secret location due to threats by Israeli nationalists. The film follows the organizers and two participants who each lost loved ones an Israeli woman whose parents were killed on October 7, and a Palestinian man who lost more than sixty members of his family in Gaza, yet both refuse to surrender to revenge and search instead for dialogue, justice, and reconciliation.
The film was produced in Germany by Christian Beetz and Georg Tschurtschenthaler (Beetz Brothers Film Production).
I was one of the directors of the film, as well as one of the cinematographers.
Stills from the film






crew
Directors: Rami Fahel, Badoor Jbara, Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir.
Produced by: Christian Beetz and Georg Tschurtschenthaler.
Runtime: 30 minutes.
Production country: Germany.
Key crew:
Camera / Cinematography: Badoor Jbara, May Khatib, Rami Fahel, Amit Chachamov, Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir.
Editing: Sagi Bornstein, Badoor Jbara.
Sound: Ori Uriel, Mooni Saeed, Yara Rajai Mohammad Yahya, Nur Stadler.
Color: Dima Lydkhov.
Commissioning Editor: Anett Sager.