Jewish International Film Festival: The Narrow Bridge Q&A

I interviewed Esther Takac, director/producer/writer of the documentary The Narrow Bridge. I also spoke to two of the people featured in the film - Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan. Bassam is Palestinian, Rami is Israeli and they had met through an organisation called Combatants for Peace. Rami's daughter was killed in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, aged 14, in 1997. Bassam's daughter Abir was shot in the head and killed by an Israeli soldier in 2007 aged 10.

They're both now members of Israeli Palestinian Bereaved Families. The film follows the stories of four people whose child or parent was killed in violent conflict, but instead of finding hate or despair Bushra, Rami, Meytal, and Bassam are transforming their loss into a bridge for conflict resolution. Through Esther’s lens as a trauma psychologist, the film explores who they used to be, who they are now and how the experience of trauma changed them. This screening was part of the Jewish International Film Festival.