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Until We Talk<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Rami Elhanan\u2019s 13-year-old daughter is killed in West Jerusalem by a bomb set off by a Palestinian suicide bomber. When the grieving father meets the Palestinian Bassam Aramin, an unlikely friendship develops between the two men. Ten years later, Bassam\u2019s 10-year-old daughter is shot and killed by an Israeli border police officer. But the bond between the two men is strong and withstands this new blow of fate.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”4\/5″][vc_message css=”.vc_custom_1789393444732{padding-bottom: 17px !important;}”]Theatrical Release: In theaters across Germany beginning October 8, 2026.[\/vc_message][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″ css=”.vc_custom_1770213337653{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_btn title=”Showtimes” color=”juicy-pink” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” button_block=”true” link=”url:%23spieltermine|”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”419746″ img_size=”full” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”419754″ img_size=”full” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

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Rami Elhanan\u2019s 13-year-old daughter is killed in West Jerusalem by a bomb set off by a Palestinian suicide bomber. When the grieving father meets the Palestinian Bassam Aramin, an unlikely friendship develops between the two men. Ten years later, Bassam\u2019s 10-year-old daughter is shot and killed by an Israeli border police officer. But the bond between the two men is strong and withstands this new blow of fate. They continue to work tirelessly for dialogue and reconciliation. When their teenage sons decide to take a different path, their commitment is put to the test once again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Director’s Statement – Florian Mebes<\/h3>\n

\u201cWhy Israel of all places?\u201d I hear this question often. Perhaps because this country acts like a magnifying glass. Because everything comes together here: religion, history, pain, hope. And because nowhere else can you feel so clearly how close opposites can come together.<\/em><\/p>\n

During my studies, I met Arslan. He came from Baqa al-Gharbiyyeh, an Arab town in northeastern Israel. We became friends. It was the time of the second Intifada. Bombs exploded on buses, the army retaliated, and Arslan worried about his family, who lived between all fronts. When he invited me to make a film about the Arab minority, I immediately agreed. We worked in Baqa, right next to the wall to the West Bank. I remember the moment I saw it for the first time. A gray colossus of concrete, twice as high as the Berlin Wall I knew from my childhood. Behind it, another world began. There, I understood that this conflict is not just about politics, but about people, about fates, about hatred and mistrust, about grief. But also about hope and courage and the will to change something.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_single_image image=”419690″ img_size=”full” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]A few years later, my filmmaking studies took me back to Israel. I spoke with young Israelis who told me about attacks, about friends they had lost, and about a faith that had disappeared. One day, I came across a photo. Two men stood side by side at the wall\u2014an Israeli and a Palestinian. Something about this image stayed with me. I wanted to know who they were. Their names were Rami and Bassam.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two fathers who had lost their children in the conflict. And who decided to become friends. I wrote to them, and they replied. A short time later, I was standing at Rami’s door in West Jerusalem. After an hour of small talk, he invited me to attend a joint lecture. I listened to them talk about their journey and knew immediately: this is where a film begins. What was intended as a final project turned into a long journey. I accompanied the two of them for years, through Israel and the occupied territories, later across Europe to South Africa. I saw them in moments of hope and exhaustion, saw how they reached their limits and yet crossed them again and again.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rami and Bassam believe in dialogue where weapons fail. Their friendship is not a symbol, but a lived reality. UNTIL WE TALK<\/strong> tells the story of this friendship. Of two men who found the courage to listen.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1581030319933{margin-top: 15px !important;margin-bottom: 36px !important;background-color: #efefef !important;}”]