NR | Documentary | 1 Hour 7 Minutes | $10.00 General Admission/$6.00 Members – Q&A After the film with the Director and Producers
In the midst of darkness, we discover who we truly are. This film about a group of visionaries who refuse to surrender to violence and injustice, shows that another path is possible – for them, for us, and for all humanity. As we are all faced with essential questions about who we are, will we choose collective liberation, where the needs, rights, and safety of all are prioritized – in which our humanity comes first, knowing that no one is free until everyone is free?
Combatants for Peace, nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes, is a bi-national group of former enemy combatants – Israelis and Palestinians – working together during an ongoing armed conflict. Confronted with the devastation and escalating violence of 10/7 and the war in Gaza, the very core of the movement faces great challenges in showing that there is another way. The first question they must answer relates to their own beliefs…is this possible?
A follow up to the award-winning documentary Disturbing the Peace (2016), this film is about choosing our future. It takes courage to walk a path even when you feel overwhelmed and afraid—a path where you don’t know the final answer, only that it will emerge from standing in the grief of what we, as humanity, have experienced and created and find yourself unable to turn away.
Stephen Apkon (Director & Producer) is a filmmaker, social entrepreneur, and co-founder of Reconsider. He is the Founder and former ED of the Jacob Burns Film Center, a non-profit film and education center located in Pleasantville, NY. He directed and produced the award-winning Disturbing the Peace. He is a Producer of I’m Carolyn Parker, directed by Jonathan Demme and Enlistment Days, directed by Ido Haar, and Co-Producer of Presenting Princess Shaw, also directed by Ido Haar. Apkon is an Executive Producer of Fantastic Fungi and Planetary. Mr. Apkon is the author of The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in April 2013 – foreword by Martin Scorsese.
Marcina Hale (Producer) is co-founder of Reconsider. With degrees in both Media and Psychotherapy, it is part of Marcina’s vision to utilize film and gatherings as a catalyst to create experiences that evoke thought and conversations that both challenge and inspire a more profound relationship to life. Marcina has facilitated conversations and workshops all over the world. She is an Executive Producer of Fantastic Fungi and a Co-Producer of Disturbing the Peace. Marcina’s Ted Talk “Who Wants Out” is a call to let people know that we are choosing how we are living, and we can make different choices.