MOURNING IN LOD
A film by Hilla Medalia
2023, 74 minutes
2023, 74 minutes
No. 441
Documentary
Documentary
Description
Mourning in Lod takes a microcosmic look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through Musa, Yigal, and Randa — three people whose fates become inextricably linked in a vicious cycle of violence.
Lod/Lydd is a “mixed” city inhabited by Arabs and Jews who live side by side in a strained coexistence. In May 2021, two of these three people lost their lives and one regained hers — thanks to an unlikely organ transplant. The outpouring of love, anger, forgiveness and sorrow that follows in their wake offers a glimpse of morning light to offset a collective state of mourning with no end in sight.
Festivals
Official Selection, Cleveland International Film Festival
Official Selection, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Official Selection, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Official Selection, Hamptons International Film Festival
Reviews
"Concise and knowingly, regrettably unresolved, “Mourning in Lod” does what it can to weave a single episode of hope and civility into a tortured history of sectarian violence." - David Ehrlich, IndieWire
