From Emmy-Winning Executive Producer
Abigail Disney
(The Armor of Light, Pray The Devil Back to Hell)
(The Armor of Light, Pray The Devil Back to Hell)
Discover What Critics Are Saying:
"A brilliant personal exploration of the psychological obstacles to peace in the middle east, and the tectonic plates of history that have brought two peoples to this tragic impasse."
- Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
- Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
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"it's a timely and essential portrait."
- Los Angeles Times |
"[Boch is] an excellent interviewer, asking difficult questions about what her subjects think of Israel, the Holocaust and the Jewish people, then carefully considering the answers."
- The New York Times |
"movingly demonstrates the myriad of ways in which the past haunts the present
and the healing power of communication."
- The Hollywood Reporter
and the healing power of communication."
- The Hollywood Reporter
Meet The Director
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Ofra Bloch
Director/Writer A filmmaker and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She grew up in Israel, where her deep interest in the short and long-term effects of trauma originated. She has volunteered with Doctors of the World, where she interviewed victims of torture, and wrote their affidavits. She began making short documentaries 10 years ago. AFTERWARD is her first feature documentary.
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Afterward
Directed by Ofra Bloch
Run time: 95 min Public Performance Rights Licensing:
Starting at $299 Organizations & institutions please contact info@passionriver.com today for a quote Synopsis:
Afterward delves into the secret wounds carried by victims as well as victimizers as the Jerusalem-born filmmaker seeks to make sense of the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping the globe. |
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Long Synopsis:
Set against the current wave of fascism and anti-Semitism sweeping the globe, Afterward delves into the secret wounds carried by victims as well as victimizers through testimonies ranging from horrifying to hopeful. Jerusalem-born trauma expert and director Ofra Bloch forces herself to confront her personal demons in a journey that takes her to Germany, Israel and Palestine.
Seen as a victim in Germany and a perpetrator in Palestine, Bloch faces those she was raised to hate as she searches to understand the identity-making narratives of the Holocaust and the Nakba, violent and non-violent resistance, and the possibility of reconciliation.
The film points towards a future - an "afterward" - that attempts to live with the truths of history in order to make sense of the present.
Set against the current wave of fascism and anti-Semitism sweeping the globe, Afterward delves into the secret wounds carried by victims as well as victimizers through testimonies ranging from horrifying to hopeful. Jerusalem-born trauma expert and director Ofra Bloch forces herself to confront her personal demons in a journey that takes her to Germany, Israel and Palestine.
Seen as a victim in Germany and a perpetrator in Palestine, Bloch faces those she was raised to hate as she searches to understand the identity-making narratives of the Holocaust and the Nakba, violent and non-violent resistance, and the possibility of reconciliation.
The film points towards a future - an "afterward" - that attempts to live with the truths of history in order to make sense of the present.
